Scotland: a chance acquaintance, 25, 26; gentleman's sacrifice for his son, 84; incident in a country-house, 131; religious incident in travel, 173; a painter's hint, 232; the Highlands, 271; scenery, 379; cricket impossible, 398. Scott, Sir Walter: indebtedness to the poor, 22; Lucy of Lammermoor, 39, 143, 144; Jeanie Deans, 175; supposed American ignorance of, 277; quotation from Waverley, 327; Provost's letter, 365. Sculpture: warmed by love, 42, 43; none in heaven, 191; ignorance about English, 265. (See _Art_, etc.) Seals on letters, 326-328. Secularists: in England, 171; tame oratory, 193. Sedan, cause of lost battle, 308. Seduction, how restrained, 38. Self-control, grim, 397. Self-esteem, effect of benevolence in developing, 196. Self-examination, induced by letters, 380. Self-indulgence, of opposite kinds, 299, 300. Self-interest: affecting friendship, 116; at the confessional, 202. Selfishness: affected by marriage, 26; desire for comfort, 27; affecting passion, 38; in hosts, 101, 102; in a letter, 334; in amusements, 397. Sensuality, connection with Bohemianism, 296. Sentences, reading, 156. Sentiment, none in business, 353, 364. Separations: between friends, 111-118; letter-writing during, 338; Tasso family, 350, 351. Sepulchre, whited, 297. Sermons: one-sided, 29; in library, 302. Servants: marriage to priests, 200; often needful, 259; concomitants of wealth, 297, 298; none, 307; in letters, 324; anonymous letter, 376; hired to wait, 397. Severn River, 270. Sexes: pleasure in association, 3; passionate love, 34; relations socially limited, 36, 37; antagonism of nature and civilization, 41; in natural scenery, 43; inharmony in marriages, 44-62 _passim_; sisters and brothers, 65; connection with confession, 201-204; lack of analysis, 280; Bohemian relations, 296, 297. Shakspeare: indebtedness to the poor, 22; Juliet, 39; portraiture of youthful nonsense, 88; allusion by Grant White, 277; Macbeth and Hamlet confused, 290; Polonius's advice applied to Goldsmith, 310. Shelley, Percy Bysshe: his study of past literature, 13; passionate love, 34; marriages, 35, 46-48, 55, 56; quotation, 43; disagreement with his father, 96, 97. Ships: passing the Suez canal, xii; interest of Peter the Great, and dislike of his son, 85; at siege of Syracuse, 215; of war, 277, 278; as affecting correspondence, 337; drifting, 378; fondness for details, 394. Shoeblack, illustration, 335. Shyness, English, 245. Siamese Twins, allusion, 290. Silence, golden, 85. Sin, affecting pulpit oratory, 193. Sir, the title, 137. Sisters: affection, 63-77 _passim_; jealousy of admiration, 65; pecuniary obligations, how regarded, 69.