Legends and parables: a Brahman turned into a monkey, 49; Moses and the dwellers by the Dead Sea, 49; the redbreast, and how it was singed, 55; the man in the moon, 79; man and woman in the moon, 79; Gertrud bird, the woodpecker, 79; the Wandering Jew, 80; the Brahman and the three rogues, 296; Og, a king of Bashan, 298; Nimrod and the gnat, 302; Gabriel and the idol-worshiper, 346; St. John in the arms of his disciples, 359; blind men and the elephant, 379; St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 388. Leighton, a clergyman, persecution of, 363. Le Notre and Louis XIV., 167. Le Sage, poverty of, 134. Leslie, anecdote of Owen and Wilberforce, 92. Lessing, the restless instinct for truth, 32. Levelers, remark of Johnson on, 105. Life, every year of a wise man's, 8; a series of surprises, 24; knowledge of, 353; beginning and end of, 353; stanza on, 356. Lilli Burlero, ballad of, 204. Lilliput, the mighty emperor of, 28. Lincoln, his dislike of being preached to, 94; how he earned his first dollar, 122; idea the slaves had of him, 314; the reason he gave for not uniting himself to any church, 386. Linnaeus, curious facts relating to, 235. Liston, a confirmed hypochondriac, 315. Livingstone, exclamation of Sekwebu at seeing the sea, 19; tribe of good Africans, 102. Livy, on curing public evils, 26. Llandaff, Bishop of, anecdote of, 121. Lloyd, his remedy for madness, 267. Locke, of the king of Siam, 101. Lockhart, wrote the first of the Noctes papers, 255. Longfellow, lines from Hiawatha, 299. Lovelace and Suckling, 266. Lowell, definition of common sense, 7; Montaigne and Shakespeare, 12; witchcraft, 61. Lucian, a pretty passage in one of his dialogues, 296. Lucretius, his one poem, 125. Luther, a violent saint sometimes, 45; what Heine said of him, 47; what he said of himself, 47; and the devil, 204; believed in ghosts, 243; relations with Erasmus, 308; opinion of Erasmus, 309; with Melancthon in the pulpit, 310. Mabillon, a genius by an accident, 226. Macaulay, conduct of a nephew of, 25; a laborious writer, 129; Machiavelli, 233; Byron, 298; times of Cromwell and Charles II., 304, 305, 306; ethics of Charles II.; hanging of Aikenhead, 362. Machiavelli, of judging by appearances, 71; a zealous republican, 233; curious facts relating to, 233. Mackenzie, Henry, his advice to Burns, 145; a hard-headed, practical man, 255. Mackenzie, Sir George, an advocate of solitude, 244. Mahagam, ruins of, 222. Mahomet, turns a misfortune to advantage, 66. Maintenon, Madame de, to her niece, 336. Maistre, Xavier de, on self-love, 12; of people fancying themselves ill, 76. Malherbe, how he composed 126; anecdotes of, 126. Mallet, a curious fact relating to, 256.