Months, trade terms for, 365. Morris, Lewis, A Cynic's Day-dream, 393. Mothers, "loud-tongued," 75. (See _Children_, _Women_, etc.) Mountains: climbing affected by railways, 14; quotation from Byron, 30; in pictures, 43; glory in England and France, 270, 271; Mont Blanc, where situated, 271. Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus, allusion, 289. Muloch, Dinah Maria, confounded with George Eliot, 290. Music: detached from religion, xii, xiii; voice of love, 42; affecting fraternity, 64; connection with religion, 191; illustration of harmony, 389. Nagging, by parents, 76. Napoleon I.: and the Universe, 273, 274; privations, 308; _mot_ of the Pope, 341; Rémusat letters, 350. Napoleon III.: death, son, 225; ignorance of German power, 278; losing Sedan, 308. Nationality: prejudices, 7; to be respected at table, 106, 107; different languages an obstacle to intercourse (Essay XI.), 148-160; mutual ignorance (Essay XIX.), 264-279 _passim_. National Gallery, London, 291. Nature: compensations, iv; causes, xii; laws not deducible from single cases, 4; inestimable gifts, 26; beauty an alleviation of solitude, loyalty, 30, 31; opposed to civilization in love-matters, 41; universality of love, 42, 43; promises fulfilled, 60-62; revival of study, 212; laws fixed (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_; De Saussure's study, 230, 231; expressed in painting, 232, 233; nearness, 303-314 _passim_; her destroyers, 393. Navarre, King Henry of, 224. Navy, a young officer's acquaintance, 25, 26. Neglect, destroys friendship, 116. Nelson, Lord: the navy in his time, 279; letter in battle, 327, 328. Nerves, affected by rudeness, 128, 129. New England, a blond native, 240. Newspapers: on nature and the supernatural, xii; adultery reports in English, 41; personal interest, 124; regard for titles, 137; quarrels between English and American, 150; reading, 156; on royalty, 166, 167; deaths in, 225; English and French subservience to rank, 248; a bourgeois complaint, 286; crossing the seas, 337, 338. New Year's, French customs, 339. Niagara Rapids, 290. Night, Palmer's watches, 312. Nikias, a military leader, his superstition, 215-217, 229. Nineteenth Century, earlier half, 205, 206. Nobility: the English have two churches to choose from, 169-171, 173; opposition to Dissent, 256, 257. Nonconformity, English, 256, 257. (See _Dissent_, etc.) Normans, influence of the Conquest, 251, 252. Oaths, no obstacle to hypocrisy, 162. Obedience, filial (Essay VI.), 78-98. Observation, cultivated, 290, 291. Obstacles: of Language, between nations (Essay XI.), 148-160; of Religion (Essay XII.), 161-174. Occupations, easily confused, 288, 289. Oil, mineral, 288. Old Maids, defence, 379-382.