Continent, the: family ties, 63; friendship broken by marriage, 116; religious liberality, 173; marriage, 184; flowers, 188, 189; confessional, 202, 203; exaggeration, 234, 235; table-manners of travellers, 240-252 _passim_; drinking-places, 262. (See _France_, etc.) Controversy, disliked, xiii. Conventionality: affecting personality, 15-17; genteel ignorance engendered by, 260-262. (See _Courtesy_, _Manners_, etc.) Conversation: chance, 26; compared with literature, 29; study of languages, 156; at _table d'hôte_, 239-249; among strangers, 247-252 _passim_; useless to quote, 291; Goldsmith's enjoyment, 309. Convictions, our own to be trusted, iii, iv. Copenhagen, battle, 327. Cornhill Magazine, Lever's article, 259, 260. Corot (Jean Baptiste Camille), his Bohemianism, 310, 311. Correspondence: akin to periodicals, 30; Belgian letters, 153; Courtesy of Epistolary Communication (Essay XXII.), 315-335; introductions and number of letters, 316; promptness, 317, 318; Plumpton Letters, 318-323; brevity, 324; telegraphy and abbreviations, 325; sealing, 326, 327; peculiar stationery, 328; post-cards, 329; _un mot à la poste_, 330; brevity and hurry, 331; handwriting, 332; crossed lines, ink, type-writers, 333; dictation, outside courtesy, 334; to reply or not reply? 335; Letters of Friendship (Essay XXIII.), 336-353; a supposed gain to friendship, 336; neglected, 337; impediments, 338; French cards, 339; abandonment to be regretted, 340; letter-writing a gift, 341; real self wanted in letters, 342; letters of business and friendship, 343; familiarity best, 344; lengthy letters, 345; Byron's, 346-348; Jacquemont's, 349; the Rémusat letters, 350; Bernardo Tasso's, Montaigne's, 350; perils of plain speaking, 352, 353; Letters of Business (Essay XXIV.), 354-369; differences of talent, 354; repeated perusals, 355; refuge of timidity, 356; letters exposed, literary faults, omissions, 357; directions misunderstood, 358, 359; acknowledging orders, 361; slovenly writing, one subject in each letter, 362; misunderstanding through ignorance, 363; in foreign languages, 364; conventional slang, 365; careful reading necessary, 366; unopened letters, 367; epistles half-read, 368; a stupid error, 369; Anonymous Letters (Essay XXV.), 370-382; common, 370; slanderous, 371; vehicle of calumny, 372; written to betrothed lovers, 373; story, 374; written in collaboration and with pains, 375; an expected grandchild, 376; torture and threats, 377; kindly and critical, 378-382. Corvée: allusion, 342; definition, 389, 390, 396, 397. (See _Amusements_.) Cottage, love in a, 35, 36. Court-circulars, 166, 167.