Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 47, 79; his _Old Ironsides_, 166; his _Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_, 219; his real ideas and sham ideas, 219; his lack of deep seriousness, 220. Honey dew, 178. Howells, William Dean, 5, 7, 72, 81; his _Criticism and Fiction_, 82, 83, 109; 206; quotation from, 83. Hugo, Victor, 103, 119; his moral earnestness, 189. Hume, David, elegance of his style, 77; on the eloquence of Demosthenes, 162; on Cowley and Parnell, 220; quotations from, 77, 162. Hunt, Leigh, 131. Huxley, Thomas Henry, 51, 78, 119. Ibsen, Henrik, 149. Immorality in art and literature, 148-150. Immortality, false analogies of, 32-39. Indian, the, Thoreau on, 198, 199. Indifferentism, 142, 143, 146-148. Individualism, 125, 126. Individuality in literature, 53-60. Institutionalism, 125, 126. Irvine, J. P., quotation from his poem _The Lightning Express_, 159. James, Henry, on Whitman’s letters, 4; 5, 69, 121; style of his later works, 206. Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 131. _Jesse’s Gleanings in Natural History_, 179. Joan of Arc, 73. Johnson, Charles Frederick, his _Elements of Literary Criticism_, 109. Johnson, Samuel, 76; his _Rambler_, 76; his criticism, 90; on Dryden, 92; 96, 103, 112, 172, 205; Boswell’s Life of, 225. Jonson, Ben, a bit of his prose, 26. Keats, John, 11; his _Ode to a Nightingale_, 75. Kidd, Benjamin, his _Social Evolution_, 9. Landor, Walter Savage, 93; lacking in moral stress and fervor, 124; 132, 184. Lemaître, Jules, 87. Life, the earlier years of one’s, 231-243. Lincoln, Abraham, his Gettysburg speech, 5; an elemental man, 6; his greatness of the democratic type, 113, 114; his commonness, 115, 116. Literature, the enduring in, 1-3, 216-231; values in, 4-9; definitions of, 9-13; style in, 14, 52-79; truth in, 14, 15; morality and art in, 16; art in, 17-20; the teaching of, 20-25; good and bad taste in, 26, 116-118; democracy in, 109-115; the doctrinaire in, 118-126; art _vs._ didacticism in, 135-142, 144-150; an end in and of itself, 140; immorality in, 148-150; effect of democracy upon, 152-156; humanitarianism in, 156; the mechanical and industrial age in, 157-160; lucidity in, 180-182; appreciation in the reading of, 182-185; necessity of something more than style in, 186-190; Nature in, 202-204; suggestiveness in, 205-215. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 137, 185, 230; his sonnet on Sumner, 230. Lowell, James Russell, 105, 108, 122, 124; on scholarship, 186; quotation from, 186. Lucidity, 180-182. Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Lord, on Miss Burney, 62; 65, 79, 96, 131, 166; quotation from, 62. Maeterlinck, Maurice, his _Life of the Bee_, 211. Martineau, Harriet, 103.