Kant, a curious fact of, 251. Kean, Edmund, wretchedness of his early life, 124; how he studied and slaved, 131. Kemble, John, reply to Northcote, 15; as to his new readings of Hamlet, 131. Kempis, Thomas a, of simplicity and purity, 345; of charity and humility, 372; of amending our own faults, 374. King, Dr., on toleration, 383. Kinglake, care in the composition of Eothen, 128. Kingsley, Charles, of his father, 151. Kneller, Sir Godfrey, remark to a sitter, 13. Knives and forks, ridiculed by Ben Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher, 202. Knowledge reserved, 240. Kotzebue, relating to, 257. Labor, life's blessing, 121. La Bruyere, of judging men, 2; of diversity, 6; some thoughts of, 24; on the mixture of good and evil, 73; eloquent passage of, 219. La Fontaine, always copying and recopying, 126; dull and stupid in conversation, 260. Lais, the courtezan, saying of, 41. Lamartine, a strange statement relating to, 256. Lamb, remark on covetousness, 73; dissection of meanness, 81; anecdote of George Dyer, 88; doing good by stealth, 89; story of an India-house clerk, 100; care in composition, 127; anecdote of, 134; criticises Faust, 146; tribute to Manning, 150; essay on the Origin of Roast Pig, 169; could spit upon Howard's statue, 260; first acting of Mr. H., 272; hopeful letter to Manning, 273; hisses his own bantling, 274; another letter to Manning, not so hopeful, 275; poor Elia, 275; constitutional melancholy of, 316. Lamb, Mary, Hazlitt's estimate of, 267. Landor, eyes of critics on one side, 4; of Shakespeare and Milton, 152; of Cromwell and Milton, 152; of the estimation of the great by their contemporaries, 153; of Swift, Addison, Rabelais, La Fontaine and Pascal, 315; of Aspasia and Pericles, 347; the falsehood of life, 364; of looking down on ourselves, 372. Lansdowne, phrenologist's judgment of, 188. Lardner, curious facts of, 266. La Rochefoucauld, his Maxims criticised by Sterling, 2; reference to his Maxims, 12; care in composition, 129; an unselfish, brave, humane man, 234. Last Rose of Summer, 204. Latimer, Tenterden-Steeple and Goodwin Sands, 18. Laud, cruelty of, 363. Lavater, judgment of Lord Anson, 189; duped by Cagliostro, 258. Lay, Benjamin, an enthusiast, anecdote of, 367. Layard, nature breaking out in a party of Arabs, 48; engravings on Nineveh, 178; lens found in Nineveh, 181; tradition of Nimrod and the gnat, 302. Lecky, witchcraft in England, 56; opinion of Hooker, 225; great and multiform influences of Christian philanthropy, 372.