Sears, Lorenzo, his _Methods and Principles of Literary Criticism_, 109. Shairp, Principal John Campbell, 91. Shakespeare, William, 74; Voltaire’s verdict upon, 103; democracy of his art, 111; 136; the highest type of the disinterested artist, 144; 189; his _Sonnets_, 208, 209, 211; quotations from, 136, 212. Shakespeareana, 24. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 114, 124. Smith, Sydney, 26. Sparrow, house (_Passer domesticus_), 175. Sparrow, song (_Melospiza melodia_), 174. Sparrow, vesper (_Poœcetes gramineus_), 174. Spencer, Herbert, 32, 59; on the philosophy of style, 71; his style, 206; quotations from, 32, 71. Staël, Madame de, 104. Steam engine in recent poetry, the, 158, 159. Stevenson, Robert Louis, 3; his _Inland Voyage_, 227; his _Travels with a Donkey_, 227. Style, value of, 6-8; a quality of mind, 14; nature of, 52, 53; personality an element of, 54-60; of the stylist, 61-67; unconsciousness of good, 68, 69; simplicity of good, 69-74; in conversation, 75-77; aristocracy and democracy in, 77; variety of, 78, 79. Stylist, the, 62-67. Suggestiveness in literature, 205-215. Swallow, barn (_Hirundo erythrogastra_), 173, 174. Swallow, cliff (_Petrochelidon lunifrons_), 173, 174. Swallow, white-bellied, _or_ tree (_Tachycineta bicolor_), 174. Swallows, supposed hibernation of, 171-173; feeding young on the wing, 175. Swift, chimney (_Chœtura pelagica_), 174. Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 19; his style, 66, 70, 71. Tacitus, his eloquence, 165. Taine, Hippolyte Adolphe, 104, 105, 119; a stimulating but not disinterested critic, 121, 122; 142, 143. Taste, lapses of, 25, 26; good and bad, 116-118. Taylor, Edward Thompson (“Father”), 163. Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 19, 114, 121; universality of his art, 138, 139; begotten of the feudal spirit, 154; his _Maud_, 161; an example of his eloquence, 166; 181, 184; his _Crossing the Bar_, 227; quotation from, 166. Thackeray, William Makepeace, the title of his _Vanity Fair_, 10, 11; 103. Thiers, Louis Adolphe, 119. Thoreau, Henry David, 30, 56, 119; his wildness, 197-202; his enthusiasm for the Indian, 198, 199; the Indian in, 199, 200; his search for the transcendental in nature, 201, 202; quotations from, 197-202. Titlark, 176. _To the Rainbow_, 166. Tolstoi, Leo, 39, 90, 119, 121, 134, 149, 155. Triggs, Oscar Lovell, 110. Universe, the, 35-38. Villemain, Abel François, 104. Vineyard, preparing a new, 254-256. Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, his style, 69; his verdict upon Shakespeare, 103, 111; 144; quotation from, 69. Waldstein, Dr. Louis, his _The Subconscious Self_, 130, 141; quotations from, 141. Ward, Mrs. Humphry, 119, 121. Water-rat, 177. Weather, Gilbert White’s observations on the, 177, 178.