Sports: often comparatively unrestrained, 36; affecting fraternity, 64; youth fitted for, 86; roughening influence, 100; affecting friendship, 115; aristocratic, 124; among the rich, 143; ignorance about English, 267, 268; concomitant of wealth, 297; not enjoyed, 302; William of Orange's, 345; connection with amusement, 385-401 _passim_. Springtime of love, 34. Stanford's London Atlas, 274. Stars, illustration of crowds, 77. Steam, no help to friendship, 337. Stein, Baroness von, relations to Goethe, 51-53. Stephenson, George, his locomotive not a failure, 293. Stowe, Harriet Beecher, her works confounded with George Eliot's, 290. Strangers, treatment of by the English and others (Essay XVII.), 239-252 _passim_. Stream, illustration from the impossibility of upward flow, 98. Strength, accompanied with exercise, 302. Studies: affecting friendship, 111; literary and artistic, 400, 401. Subjugation, the motive of display of wealth, 145. Suez Canal, and superstition, xii. Sunbeam, yacht, 138, 139. Sunday: French incident, 128, 129; allusion, 198; supposed law, 281. (See _Sabbath_.) Sunset, allusion, 31. Supernaturalism (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_; doubts about, 377, 378. Superstition and religion (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_. Surgeon, an artistic, 289. Sweden, king of, 308. Swedenborgianism, commended to the author, 378. Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's box, 261. Swimming: affected by railways, 14; in France, 272. Switzerland: epithets applied to, 235; tourists, 240; Alps, 271; Goldsmith's travels, 309; Doré's travels, 345. Sympathy: with an author, 9; one of two great powers deciding human intercourse, 11; of a married man with a single, 25, 26; between parents and children (Essay VI.), 78-98 _passim_; between Priests and Women (Essay XIII. part I.), 175-186 _passim_. Symposium, antique, allusion, 29. Syracuse, siege, 215-217, 229. Table: its pleasures comparatively unrestrained, 36; former tyranny of hospitality, 101, 102; modern customs, appetite affected by sociability, 102; excess not required by hospitality, 103; French fashion, 105; instances of bad manners, 106, 107, 126-128; rules of precedence, 130, 131; matrons occupied with cares, 140, 141; among the rich, 143; tyranny, 172; English manners towards strangers contrasted with those of other nations (Essay XVII.), 239-252; _déjeûner_, 273; among the rich, 297; talk about hunting, 398, 399. Talking, contrasted with writing, 354-357. Tasso, Bernardo, father of the poet, his letters, 350, 351. Taylor, Mrs., relations to Mill, 53-55. Telegraphy: under fixed law, 228; affecting letters, 324, 325, 331, 361; anecdote, 326. Telephone, illustration, 336. Temper, destroys friendship, 112, 118.