Olympus, unbelief in its gods, 162. Oman, sea of, 226. Opinions: not the result of volition, xiii; of guests to be respected, 105, 106; changes affecting friendship, 112, 113. Orange, William of, correspondence, 344, 345. Oratory, connection with religion, xii, 191-195. Order of the Universe, to be trusted, iii. Originality: seen in authorship, 12; how hindered and helped, 13, 14; French estimate, 15. Orthodoxy, placed on a level with hypocrisy, 162, 163. Ostentation, to be shunned in amusements, 401. Oxford: opinion of a learned doctor about Christ's divinity, 6; Shelley's expulsion, 96; its antiquity, 275, 276. Paganism: hypocrisy, and preferment, 162; gods and wars, 224. Paget, Lady Florence, curt letter, 321. Pain, feminine indifference to, 180. Painters: taste in travel, 14; deterioration of a, 28; discovering new beauties, 60; Corot, 310, 311; Palmer, 312; one in adversity, 314; gayety not in pictures, 341; sketches in letters, 345; of boats, 359; lack of business in French painter, 367, 368; idle sketches, 400; Leloir, 401. Painter's Camp in the Highlands, 379. Painting: fondness for it a cause of discord, 6; French excellence, 8; interdependence, 13; high aims, 28; palpitating with love, 43; affecting fraternity, 64; none in heaven, 191; not necessarily religious, 198; copies, 203; two methods, 232, 233; convenient building, 261; ignorance about English, 265-267; not merely an amusement, 400. (See _Art_, etc.) Paleontology, allusion, 206. Palgrave, Gifford, saved from shipwreck, 226-228. Palmer, George, a speech, 223. Palmer, Samuel, his Bohemianism, 312, 313. Palmer, William, in Russia, 257, 258. Paper, used in correspondence, 328. Paradise: the arts in, 191; affecting pulpit oratory, 193. (See _Priests_.) Paris: an artistic centre, 8; incivility at a dinner, 107; effect of wealth, 121; elegant house, 142; English residents, 150; a lady's reply about English knowledge of French language, 152; Notre Dame, 190; Jardin des Plantes, 209; hotel incident, 240-242; not a desert, 242; light of the world, 266, 267, 274; resting after _déjeûner_, 273; confusion about buildings, 291; an illiterate tradesman, 360, 361; the _Salon_, 367. Parliament: illustration of heredity, 93; indebtedness of members to trade, 135; infidelity in, 162; superiority of pulpit, 191; George Palmer, 223; questions in, 241; Houses, 291. Parsimony: affecting family ties, 70; in hospitality, 104, 105.