Education: similarity, 10; affecting idiosyncrasy, 13; conventional, 15; effect upon humor, 20; literary, derived from the poor, 22; affected by change in filial obedience, 80-88; home, 81 _et seq._; authority of teachers, 81, 83; divergence of parental and filial, 84; special efforts, 85; divergent, 90-92; profound lack of, 91; never to be thrown off, 92; of hospitality, 99, 100; the effect on all religion (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_; knowledge of languages, 245; of Tasso family, 350, 351. (See _Languages_, etc.) Egypt: Suez Canal, xii; illustration of school tasks, 85; war of 1882, 222-224, 229. Eliot, George: hints from the poor, 22; her peculiar relation to Mr. Lewes, 45, 46, 55, 56; often confounded with other writers, 290. Elizabeth, Queen: order about the marriage of clergy, 200; her times, 381. (See _Celibacy_.) Emerson, Ralph Waldo: the dedication, iii, iv; anecdote of Napoleon, 367. England: newspaper reports, 41; a French woman's knowledge of, 107; respect for rank, 136; title-worship, 137; estimate of wealth, 144-146; slavery to houses, 145; French ideas slowly received, 150; religious freedom, 164-168, 172; two religions for the nobility, 169, 170, 173; a most relentless monarch, 180; women during reign of Charles II., 181; marriage rites, 184, 185; aristocracy, 246; A Remarkable Peculiarity (Essay XVII.), 239-252; meeting abroad, 239; reticence in each other's company, 240; anecdotes, 241, 242; dread of intrusion, 243, 244; freedom with foreigners and with compatriots, 245; not a mark of aristocracy, 246; fear of meddlers, 247; interest in rank, 248; reticence outgrown, 249; Lever's illustration, 250; exceptions, 251; Saxon and Norman influence, 251, 252; Dissenters ignored, 256, 257; general information, 263; French ignorance of art and literature in, 265-267, 269; game, 268; mountains, 270, 271; landscapes, 270; Church, 275; supposed law about attending the Mass, 281; homes longed for, 286; the architectural blunders of tourists, 291; Philistine lady, 304; painter and Philistine, 306; letters in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, 318-321; use of telegraph, 323; letters shortened, 325; letter-paper 328; post-cards, 329, 330; communication with France, 337; trade habits, 361, 365; reading of certain books not compulsory, 378; old maids, 381; winter, 399. (See _Church of England_, _France_, etc.) English Language: ignorance of, a misfortune, 149, 150; familiar knowledge unusual in France, 151-153; forms of courtesy, 157; conversation abroad, 240; _Bohemian_, 295; literature, 305; bad spelling, 360, 361; no synonym for _corvée_, 389; nautical terms, 396. (See _England_, etc.)