English People: Continental repulsion, 7; artistic attraction, 8; undervaluation of chance conversations, 26; looseness of family ties, 63; ashamed of sentiment, 82; feeling about heredity, 93; one lady's empty rooms, 104; another's incivility, 106; a merchant's loss of wealth, 121, 122; deteriorated aristocrat, 123; letters by ladies, 153; no consoling power, 182; gentlewomen of former generation, 205, 206; where to find inspiriting models, 208; companions of Prince Imperial, 225; understatement a habit, 234-238; a lady's ignorant remark about servants, 258, 259; ignorance of French mountains, etc., 270-271; fuel and iron, 272; universities, 275, 276; patronage of Americans, 277; anonymous letter to a gentleman, 376. Ennui: banished by labor, 32; on shipboard, 396. Enterprise, affecting individualism, 14. Envy, expressed in anonymous letters, 371. Epiphany, annual Egyptian ceremony, xii. (See _Science_, _Superstition_, etc.) Epithets, English, 235. Equality: affecting intercourse, 246; _égalité_, 282, 283. (See _Rank_, _Ignorance_.) Equestrianism, affected by railways, 14. Etching, Leloir's fondness for, 401. Etheredge, Sir George, his ribaldry, 181. Eton College, allusion, 277. Eugénie, Empress: her influence over her husband, 176; his regard, 225. Europe: vintages, 133; influence of Littré, 210; Southern, 240; allusion, 254; Turkey nearly expelled, 278; latest thought, 306; cities, 309; William of Orange, on complications, 344; communistic disturbances, 377. (See _England_, _France_, etc.) Evangelicism, English peculiarities, 123. (See _Dissenters_, etc.) Evans, Marian. (See _George Eliot_.) Evolution, theory of, 176. Exaggeration, the habit in art and life (Essay XVI.), 232-238. (See _Diminution_.) Exercise: love of, 14; in the young and the old, 86, 87. (See _Amusements_.) Experience: value, 30; needed to avoid dangers in letter-writing, 352. Extravagance: part of Bohemianism, 295; Goldsmith's, 310. Family: Ties (Essay V.), 63-77; looseness in England, 63; brotherly coolness, 64; domestic jealousies, 65; laws of primogeniture, 66; instances of strong attachment, 67; illustrations of kindness, 68; pecuniary relations, 69; parsimony, 70; discomfort of refinement, 71; cousins, 72; wife's relations, 73; indifference to the achievements of kindred, 74; aid from relatives, domestic rudeness, 75; brutality, misery, 76; home privations, 77; Fathers and Sons (Essay VI.), 78-98; intercourse, to be distinguished from individual, 119, 120; rich friends, 121; false, 122; children's marriages, 123; old, 135, 136; clerical, 199, 200; subjects of letters, 205; regard of Napoleon III., 225. (See _Brothers_, _Sons_, etc.)