Meredith, George, 69; his obscurity of expression, 180-182; quotations from, 180, 181. Metaphors, 28-31. Mill, John Stuart, a suggestive sentence of, 210. Milton, John, 13, 74; his _Lycidas_, 103; his _Paradise Lost_, 105; begotten of the classical tradition, 111; 115; makes no personal appeal, 183, 184. Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de, 16, 58, 59, 217, 218; quotation from, 59. Moody, William Vaughn, 156; his poem on the steam engine, 158, 159; quotation from, 158, 159. Morley, John, his definition of literature, 10. Nature, Thoreau’s interest in, 201, 202; in literature, 203, 204. Newman, John Henry, 119. Nisard, Jean Marie Napoléon Désiré, 104. Obscurity of expression, 180-182. Occupation, essential to happiness, 249-256. Oriole, 174. Owl, white, 175. Parkman, Francis, his _Oregon Trail_, 226. Parnell, Thomas, 220. Past, the, our feeling for, 232-243, 246. Pater, Walter, 69, 70; a mere stylist, 189. Peacock, 176. Poe, Edgar Allan, 7, 11; his art, 17-19; his _Raven_, 17, 19, 138; his _Bells_, 19, 138; the universality of his art, 138; his _Annabel Lee_, 138; his appeal only to the sense of artistic forms and verbal melody, 184, 185; quotation from, 11. Poetry, relation of eloquence to, 161-167; the elusive in, 204; more suggestive than prose, 213. _See also_ Literature. Pope, Alexander, 80, 203; on friends, 240; quotation from, 240. Protestantism, 125, 126. Quintilian, 43. Rabelais, François, 132. Raleigh, Prof. Walter, on the business of letters, 62; his style, 63, 64; 65; quotations from, 62-65. Rat, water, 177. Reading, understanding and appreciation in, 182-185; the re-reading of books, 216-231. Renan, Ernest, 32, 50; his object as a writer, 65; 119; his _Future of Science_, 161; on eloquence and poetry, 161; 190; quotations from, 50, 161, 190. Robertson, John M., his _Essays toward a Critical Method_, 109. Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 55, 56. Ruskin, John, 5, 79, 90, 119, 123, 144, 145, 147, 163; quotations from, 144, 147. Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin, 6; on Montaigne’s metaphors, 16; on Rousseau’s _Confessions_, 55; 73, 92-96; as a critic, 97, 112, 115, 118, 132, 145, 146; 102, 104, 128, 132; on moral censure in criticism, 145, 146; quotations from, 16, 55, 145, 146. _Saturday Review, The_, 4. Schérer, Edmond Henri Adolphe, 80, 94, 96, 105, 132. Schiller, his Robbers, 138. Schopenhauer, Arthur, his use of analogy, 42, 43; his definition of style, 60; 73, 234, 243; quotations from, 60, 73, 234. Science, democracy of, 110; disinterestedness of, 134, 135; rarely suggestive, 211. Scott, Sir Walter, the literary value of his novels, 5, 6, 60, 61; the eloquence of his poetry, 166; his lack of understanding of Wordsworth, 182, 183.