Abernethy, a timid lecturer, 255. Abd-el-Lateef, anecdote of, 383. Addison, on living and dressing according to the rules of common sense, 64; his care in composition, 127; reputed portrait of, 189; his belief in ghosts, 243; his marriage, 246; enlarges on a thought of Socrates, 374. Advice, on asking and giving, 104. AEschines, of Pericles and Aspasia, 41. AEsop, fable of the travelers and the chameleon, 379. Agassiz, had no time to make money, 139. Aikenhead, hanged for free religious opinions, 362. Alfieri, how he composed, 126. Alfred, King of Denmark, story of, 165. Alger, public opinion the atmosphere of society, 7; most men live blindly, 23; ruins, and what they symbolize, 216; on the blindness or Homer, Milton, Galileo, and Haendel, 228; on the happiness of solitude, 342; his account of the hermit of Grub Street, 343; the forest of statues on the roof of Milan cathedral, 354; the scholar's pantheon at the top of his mind, 354. Amyot, his poverty and success, 125. Anaxagoras, a request made by, 216; whom he believed to be most happy, 346. Andersen, advice to, 148. Anecdote of a singer and his wife in Leipsic, 316; of a hypochondriacal comedian, 323. Angelo, Michel, confesses his ignorance, 29; on reforming mankind, 93; anecdote of, 168; and Raphael, 171; a gem once worn on the finger of, 178; and the Reformation, 252; the statues of, 303; and Bramante, 303; of Donatello's statue, 325; a saying of his commending moderation, 348. Annals of the Parish, why rejected, 148. Anson, Lord, different opinions of, 189. Appleseed, Johnny, character and career of, 112. Apelles and Protogenes, 171. Apuleius, a curious fact relating to, 249. Arago, his claim for ancient Egypt, 181. Arbuthnot, Pope, and Gay, fate of a joint play of, 255. Archimedes, the tomb of, 215. Arctic morality, 102. Arctic region, small proportion of fuel used in the, 241; effect of frost in the, 301. Arethusa, Fountain of, 302. Aristotle, on proverbs, 159; logic known before, 182; fate of, 223. Arnold, Matthew, moral rules for the sage only, 369. Artist, an, in serpents, 300. Aspasia and Pericles, 41. Atterbury, Bishop, what he said of Newton, 107. Augereau, at the coronation of Napoleon, 110. Augustine, St., and the idea of Fourierism, 182; subtleties on the question, What then is time? 339; on a happy life, 340; a passage from his Confessions, 354. Auld Lang Syne, 204. Auld Robin Gray, its authorship a secret for fifty years, 254. Aurelius, Marcus, tolerant and good to all but Christians, 33; his idea of free government, 185; his doubtful wife and bad son, 247; what he learnt from his tutor, 347; a lofty thought of, on the sacredness of life, 355. Babinet, his opinion of a submarine telegraph, 267. Bacon, on nature reviving--AEsop's damsel, 48; of policy and craft, 65. Bailly, story told of, 167. Balzac, his care in composition, 128.