Untruth: an Unrecognized Form of (Essay XVI.), 232-238; two methods in painting, 232; exaggeration and diminution, 233; self-misrepresentation, 234; overstatement and understatement illustrated in travelling epithets, 235; dead mediocrity in conversation, 236; inadequacy, 237; illustration, 238. Vanity: national (Essay XIX.), 264-279 _passim_; taking offence, 279; absence, 301. Vice: of classes, 124, 125; devilish, 195; part of Bohemianism, 295, 296; of best society, 297. Victoria, Queen: quotation from her diary, 186, 187; her oldest son, 385. Violin, illustration, 389. Viollet-le-Duc, anecdote, 364. Virgil, Palmer's constant companion, 313. (See _Latin_.) Virgin Mary, her influence, 176. (See _Eugénie_, etc.) Virtue: of classes, 124, 125; priestly adherence, 195; definition, 208; Buffon's and Littré's, 211. Visiting, with rich and poor, 139-144. Vitriol, in letters, 371. Vituperation, priestly, 194. Vivisection, feminine dislike, 180. Voltaire: quotation about Columbus, 274; Goldsmith's interview, 309. Vulpius, Christiane, relations to Goethe, 52, 53. Wagner, Richard, his Tannhaüser, 388. Wales, Prince of, laborious amusements, 385-387. Warcopp, Robert, in Plumpton letters, 323, 331. Wars: affected by study of languages, 148-150, 151, 160; Eugénie's influence, 176; divine connection, 215-224; caused by national ignorance, 277, 278. Waterloo, battle, 153. Wave, simile, 251. Wealth: affecting fraternity, 66; affecting domestic harmony, 77; destroying friendship, 114, 116; Flux of (Essay IX.), 119-129; property variable, influence of changes, 119; access of bachelors and the married to society, 120; instances of friendship affected by poverty, 121; false friends, 122; imprudent marriages, 123; middle-class instances of contentment, 124; aid to refinement, 125; dress, 126; cards, and other forms of courtesy, superfluities, 127; discipline of courtesy, 128; rural manners in France, 129; Differences (Essay X.), 130-147; social precedence, 130; land-ownership, 131; trade, 132-134; _nouveau riche_ and ancestry, 135; titles, 136, 137; varied enjoyments, 138, 139; hospitality, 140-144; English appreciation, 144-146; undue deference, 146, 147; overstatement and understatement, 234; assumption, 242; plutocracy, 246, 247; American inequalities, 248; genteel ignorance, 258-260; two great advantages, 297, 298; small measure, 298; connection with Philistinism and Bohemianism, 299-314; employs better agents, 359, 360; connection with amusements, 383-401. (See _Poverty_, etc.) Webb, Captain, lost at Niagara, 290. Weeds, illustration of Radicalism, 282. Weimar: Goethe's home, 52, 57; Duke of, 57. Wenderholme, Hamerton's story, 378.