Literature: conventional, 15;
influence of the humbler classes, 22, 23;
softens isolation, 29, 31;
deaths from love, 39;
affecting fraternity, 64;
youthful nonsense not tolerated in books, 89;
superiority to mercenary motives, 132;
advantages of mutual national knowledge, 149-153;
rivals in its own domain, 154;
not necessarily religious, 198;
English periodical, 237;
ignorance about English, 267;
and Philistinism, 286, 287;
singleness of aim, 289;
English, 305;
not an amusement, 400.
Littré, Maximilien Paul Émile, his noble life, 209-211.
Livelihood, anxiety about, 20.
London: mental independence, 16-18;
solitude needless, 20;
Mill's rank, 56;
old but new, 136;
Flower Sunday, 189;
pestilence improbable, 222;
The Times, 244;
centre of English literature, 267;
business time contrasted with that of Paris, 273;
buildings, 291;
Palmer leaving, 310;
cabman, 335;
a famous Londoner, 399.
Lottery, illustrative of kinship, 75.
Louis II., amusements, 386-388.
Louis XVIII., impiety, 167.
Louvre: English art excluded, 267;
confounded with other buildings, 291.
Love: of nature, 30;
Passionate (Essay III.), 33-43;
nature, blindness, 33;
not the monopoly of youth, debauchery, 34;
permanence not assured, 35;
"in a cottage," perilous to happiness, socially limited, 36;
restraints, higher and lower, 37;
varieties, selfishness, in intellectual people, 38;
poetic subject, dying for, 39;
old maids, unlawful in married people, 40;
French fiction, early marriage repressed by civilization, 41;
passion out of place, the endless song, 42;
natural correspondences and Shelley, 43;
in marriage, 44-62;
some family illustrations, 63-77;
wife's relations, 73;
paternal and filial (Essay VI.), 78-98 _passim_;
between friends (Essay VIII.), 110-118;
divine, 178, 179;
family, 205.
(See _Brothers_, _Family_, etc.)
Lowell, James Russell, serious humor, 20.
Lower Classes, the: English rural, 22;
rudeness, 75;
religious privileges, 170, 171.
Luxury, material, 298.
(See _Philistinism_.)
Lyons, France, the Academy, 275.
Macaulay, T. B., quotations, 181, 200, 224, 344, 345.
Macleod, Dr. Norman, his sympathy, 186, 187.
Magistracy, French, 283.
Mahometanism, as affecting intercourse, 5.
Malice: harmless, 269;
in letters, 371-377.
Manchester, Eng., life there, 31.
Manners: affected by wealth, 125-129;
by leisure, 197;
by aristocracy, 246.
(See _Courtesy_, etc.)
Manufactures: under fixed law, 228;
ignorance about English, 265, 266, 268.
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