Slander: by rich people, 146, 147; in anonymous letters, 370-377. Slang, commercial, 365. Slovenliness, part of Bohemianism, 296. Smith, an imaginary gentleman, 130. Smith, Jane, an imaginary character, 178. Smoking: affecting friendship, 115; Bohemian practice, 305. Snobbery, among English travellers, 240-242. Sociability: affecting the appetite, 102; English want of (Essay XVII.), 239-252; in amusements, 383, 384. Society: good, in France, 15, 16; eccentricity no barrier in London, 16-18; exclusion, 21, 22; unexpectedly found, 23-26; alienation from common pursuits, 27, 28; aid to study, 29-31; restraints upon love, 36, 37; laws set aside by George Eliot, 45, 46, 55; Goethe's defiance, 52, 56, 57; rights of hospitality, illustrated (Essay VII.), 99-109; aristocratic, 124; affected by rank and wealth (Essay X.), 130-147 _passim_; and by religion (Essay XII.), 161-174 _passim_; ruled by women, 176; tyranny, 181; clerical leisure, 196, 197; inimical to Littré, 210; absent air in, 237; affected by Gentility (Essay XVIII.), 253-263; secession of thinkers, 262, 263; intellectual, 303; usages, 304; outside of, 307. Socrates, allusion, 204. Solicitors, their industry, 196. Solitude: social, 19; dread, 21; pleasant reliefs, 22-26; serious evil, 27; sometimes demoralizing, 28; affecting study, 29; mitigations, 29-31; preferred, 31; forgotten in labor, 31, 32; picture of, 43; Shelley's fondness, 47; free space necessary, 77; dislike prompting to hospitality (_q. v._), 143. Sons: separated from fathers by incompatibility, 10; escape from paternal brutality, 76; Fathers and (Essay VI.), 78-98; change of circumstances, 78; former obedience, 79; orders out of fashion, 80; outside education, 81; education by the father, 82-85; rapidity of youth, 86, 87; lack of paternal resemblance, 88; differing tastes, 89; fathers outgrown, 90; changes in culture, 91; reservations, 92; differing opinions, 93; oldtime divisions, 94; an imperial son, 95; other painful instances, 96; wounded by satire, 97; right basis of sonship, 98. (See _Family_, _Fathers_, etc.) Sorbonne, the, professorship of English, 152. Southey, Robert, Life of Nelson, 327. Spain: religious freedom, 164; heretics burned, 180. Speculation, compared with experience, 30. Speech, silvern, 85. Spelling, inaccurate, 360. (See _Languages_, etc.) Spencer, Herbert: made the cover for an assault upon a guest's opinions, 106; on display of wealth, 145; confidence in nature's laws, 227. Spenser, Edmund, his poetic stanza, 384.