Chapman, Jonathan, known as Johnny Appleseed, 112. Charlemagne, a story of the daughter of, 165. Charles I., a story told of, 167. Charles II., his criticism of Sir Matthew Hale, 3; touching for the evil, 224; and Cromwell, 304; and Wycherley, 304; the name given him by one who knew him, 304; manner of his death, 304; character of, drawn by Macaulay, 306. Charles XII., of Sweden, anecdote of, 167. Charity, Christian, a story illustrating, 357. Chaulnes, Duke de, and Johnson, 370. Chaumette, devoted to an aviary, 99. Cheops, ring of, 178. Chesterfield, a remark on, 190; speeches of, written by Johnson, 248. Chillingworth, at last confident of nothing, 258. China, scarcity of labor in, 240. Chinese rebuke of Christians, 101. Chrysippus, of misers, 72. Cicero, of the man and his eggs, 6; his experience at a watering-place, 16; how laboriously he prepared his speeches, 131; the diminutive copy of the Iliad he saw, 178; on universal brotherhood, 185; hunting the tomb of Archimedes, 215; timidity of, 262. Clairvoyance, very old, 183. Coal, a man executed for burning it, 202. Cobbe, Frances Power, on the Christian movement, 370. Cobbett, revisits the scenes of his boyhood, 220. Cockburn, Lord, anecdote of Dr. Henry, 80. Coleridge, one just flogging he received, 21; horrified by the exclamation of a boy, 22; some devil and some god in man, 42; anecdote of a dignified man, 69; on doing good, 93; of traders in philanthropy, 97; project of pantisocracy, 102; fears he has caught the itch, 103; gained little by his writings, 133; what he thought a sufficient income, 138; of Goethe, 147; intellect of, 151; comparison of Shakespeare with Milton, 152; on Shakespeare and Homer, 152; at York minster, 196; a remark of, in one of his lectures, 200; and John Chester, 211; curious facts relating to, 250; and the House that Jack built, 268; on certain smells, 302; his summing up of life, 336; remark on Horne Tooke, 378; remark on toleration, 383. Columbus, and the egg, 166; fact relating to, 259. Commodus, tolerant to Christians, 247. Common sense defined, 7. Communist, a, defined, 105. Conciergerie, flirting and love-making in the, 35. Confucius, describes the conduct of the superior man, 23; his joy in frugality, 136; and the Golden Rule, 185; anecdote of, 373. Congreve, what the one wise man knew, 32. Conscience, 22. Corey, Giles, pressed to death, 60. Corneille, his poverty, 134; what Napoleon said of him, 153; tiresome in conversation, 260. Cornwall, Barry, his fear of the sea, 251. Correggio, no portrait of, 262. Corwin, Thomas, anecdote of, 168. Cottle, Joseph, relating to Coleridge, 22; of Coleridge at York minster, 196; lines by, admired by Coleridge, 378. Couthon, devoted to a spaniel, 99. Cowley, a curious fact of, 245.