Hamerton, Philip Gilbert: indebtedness to Emerson, iii, iv; plan of the book, vii-ix; omissions, ix; the pleasures of friendship, x; on death, x, xi; a liking for civilization and all its amenities, xii; thoughts in French travel, 17 _et seq._; pleasant experience in studying French architecture, 23, 24; conversation in Scotland, 24, 25; in a steamer, 25, 26; acquaintance with a painter, 28; belief in Nature's promises, 60 _et seq._; what a sister said, 65; the love of two brothers, 67; delightful experience with wife's relations, 73; experience of hospitable tyranny, 100 _et seq._; Parisian dinner, 107; experience with friendship, 113; noisy French farmers, 128, 129; Scotch dinner, 131; country incident, 139, 140; questioning a Parisian lady, 152; Waterloo letters, 156; how Italian seems to him, 155; incident of Scotch travel, 173; visit to a bereaved French lady, 182; travel in France, 219; lesson from a painter, 232; snubbed at a hotel, 240-242; a French widow on her travels, 242, 243; a lady's ignorance about religious distinctions, 257; personal anecdotes about ignorance between the English and French, 265-279 _passim_; translations into French, 267; Puseyite anecdote, 284, 285; conversations heard, 291; boat incident, 292, 293; life-portraits, 300-308; experience with procrastinators, 317, 318; residence in Lancashire, 318; interest in Plumpton family, 323, 324; telegraphing a letter, 326; experience with _un mot à la poste_, 330; his boat wrongly painted, 359; his Parisian correspondent, 360, 361; efforts to ensure accuracy, 368, 369; a strange lady's anxiety for his religious condition, 378; his Wenderholme, 378; anonymous letter answered, 379-382; dislike of cricket, 398. Harewood, Earl of, 323. Haste, connection with refinement and wealth, 125, 126. (See _Leisure_.) Hastings, Marquis of, his elopement, 321. Haweis, H. R., sermon on Egyptian war, 224. Hedges: English, 270, 271; sleeping under, 307. Hell, element in oratory, 192, 193. (See _Priests_.) Heredity, opinions not always hereditary, 92-97. Heresy: banishment for, 161; disabilities, 162 _et seq._; punishment by fire, 180; pulpit attack, 192; shades in, 257, 258; resistance to God, 284. (See _Roman Catholicism_, etc.) Highlanders, their rowing, 154. Hirst, Eng., letters from, 320, 321. History, French knowledge of, 152. Holland, Goldsmith's travels, 309. Home: Family Ties (Essay V.), 62-77; a hell, 76; crowded, 77; absence affecting friendship, 111; French, 142; English (Essay X.), 130-147 _passim_; the confessional, 202; nostalgia, 286. Homer: indebtedness to the poor, 22; on the appetite, 103. Honesty, at a discount, 162, 163, 170.