Honor, in religious conformity, 162. Horace: familiarity with, 155; quoted, 289, 361. Horneck, Mrs., Goldsmith's friend, 310. Horseback: illustration, 168, 260; luxury, 298. Hospitality: (Essay VII.), 99-109; help to liberty, 99; an educator for right or wrong, 100; opposite views, 100; tyranny over guests, 101; reaction against old customs, 102; a host's rights, some extra effort to be expected, 103; disregard of a guest's comfort, 104; instances, opinions to be respected, 105; host should protect a guest's rights, 106; anecdote, 107; invasion of rights, 108; glaring instance, 109; affected by wealth, 140-144; excuse by a procrastinator, 318. (See _Guests_.) Hosts, rights and duties (Essay VII.), 99-109 _passim_. (See _Hospitality_.) Houghton, Lord, his knowledge of French, 151, 152. Housekeeping: ignorance of cost, 258, 259; cares, 381. Houses: effect of living in the same, ix; big, 145; evolution of dress, 189; movable, 261, 262; damage, 358. Hugo, Victor, use of a word, 273, 274. Humanity: obligations to, 12; future happiness dependent upon a knowledge of languages, 148 _et seq._ Humor: in different classes, 20; lack of it, 72; in using a foreign language, 157, 158; not carried into letters and pictures, 340-342. Hungarians, their sociability, 249. Hurry, to be distinguished from brevity in letter-writing, 331. Husbands: narration of experience, 25, 26; unsuitable, 40; relations of noted men to wives, 44-62 _passim_; compulsory unions, 94-98; old-fashioned letter, 322; use of post-cards, 329, 330; privacy of letters, 350; Montaigne's letter, 351, 352. (See _Wives_, etc.) Hut: suggestions of a, 261, 262; for an artist, 314. Huxley, Thomas Henry, on natural law, 217, 219. Hypocrisy: to be avoided, xi-xiii; in religion (Essay XII.), 161-174 _passim_; not a Bohemian vice, 296. Ibraheem, lost at sea, 226. Ideas, their interchange dependent upon language, 148. Idiosyncrasy: its charm, 9; in art and authorship, 12, 13; nullified by travel, 14, 15; affecting marital happiness, 48-62 _passim_; affecting family ties, 64; wanted in letters, 347; in amusements, 389; congenital, 396.