Art: detached from religion, xii; affecting friendship, 6, 8; Claude and Turner, 13; chance acquaintances, 23, 24; purposes lowered, 28, 29; penetrated by love, 42, 43; affecting fraternity, 64; friendship, 113, 114; lifts above mercenary motives, 132; literary, 154; adaptability of Greek language, 158; preferences of artists rewarded, 165; affecting relations of Priests and Women (Essay XIII. part II.), 187-195, _passim_; exaggeration and diminution, both admissible, 232, 233; result of selection, 253; French ignorance of English, 265, 266, 267; antagonized by Philistinism, 285, 286, 301; not mere amusement, 400. (See _Painting_, _Sculpture_, _Turner_, etc.) Asceticism, tinges both the Philistine and Bohemian, 299, 300. (See _Priesthood_, _Roman Catholicism_, etc.) Association: pleasurable or not, 3; affected by opinions, 5, 6; by tastes, 7, 8; London, 20; of a certain French painter, 28; between Priests and Women (Essay XIII. part III.), 195-204 _passim_; among travellers (Essay XVII.), 239-252; leads to misapprehension of opinions, 287, 288. (See _Companionship_, _Friendship_, _Society_, etc.) Atavism, puzzling to parents, 88. Atheism: reading prayers, 163; apparent, 173; confounded with Deism, 257. (See _God_, _Religion_, etc.) Attention: how directed in the study of language, 154; want of, 197. Austerlitz, battle, 350. (See _Napoleon I._) Austria, Empress, 180. Authority, of fathers (Essay VI.), 78-98 _passim_. (See _Priests_.) Authors: illustration, 9; indebtedness to humbler classes, 22, 23; relations of several to women, 46 _et seq._; sensitiveness to family indifference, 74; in society and with the pen, 237, 238; a procrastinating correspondent, 317; anonymous letters, 378. (See _Hamerton_, etc.) Authorship, illustrating interdependence, 12. (See _Literature_, etc.) Autobiographies, revelations of faithful family life, 65. Autumn tints, 233. Avignon, France, burial-place of Mill, 53. Bachelors: independence, 26; dread of a wife's relations, 73; lonely hearth, 76; friendship destroyed by marriage, 115, 116; reception into society, 120; eating-habits, 244. (See _Marriage_, _Wives_, etc.) Baker, Sir Samuel, shooting, 390-392. Balzac, his hatred of old maids, 381. Baptism, religious influence, 184, 185. (See _Priesthood_.) Baptists: in England, 170; ignorance about, 257. (See _Religion_.) Barbarism, emerging from, 161. (See _Civilization_.) Baronius, excerpts by Prince Alexis, 95. Barristers, mercenary motives, 132, 133. Bavaria, king of, 385-387. Bazaar, charity, 188. Beard, not worn by priests, 202. Beauty: womanly attraction, 38, 39; sought by wealth, 299. Bedford, Duke of, knowledge of French, 151.