Dickens, Charles, i, 57, 236, 248, ii, 119; v, 97; birthplace of, i, 196; education of, i, 248; early life of, i, 249; as a playwright, i, 249; popularity of, i, 249; American tour of, i, 250; the London of, i, 251; characters of, i, 267; Robert Browning and, v, 55; his idea of betterment, xi, 15; Thackeray's estimate of, i, 228; Voltaire compared with, viii, 283; on the boarding-school, ix, 135; on Oliver Cromwell, ix, 317; on Preraphaelitism, xiii, 252. Diderot, quoted, ii, 174; on Erasmus, x, 152; on Rousseau, ix, 386. _Dido Building Carthage_, painting, i, 129. Diet of Worms, Luther at the, vii, 143. Dignity, xiv, 304. Dilettante Society, the, iv, 302. Dilettante, Whistler on the, vi, 353. Diminishing returns, law of, x, 308. Diminutives, use of, iv, 5. Diodati, friend of Milton, v, 127. Diogenes, viii, 19; Alexander the Great and, viii, 96; influence of, viii, 204. _Diotalevi Madonna_, Perugino, vi, 27. Diplomacy, women and, v, 114. _Dipsy Chanty_, Kipling's, ii, 75. Disagreeable girl, the, described, xiii, 113. Discipline, Thomas Arnold on, x, 231; the parental idea of, vi, 160. Discontent, xiv, 77. Discord, uses of, vi, 329. Disestablishment, i, 114. _Dispute, The_, Raphael, vi, 32. Disraeli, Benjamin, xii, 199; ancestry of, v, 322; education of, v, 324; personality of, v, 325; literary efforts of, v, 327; political life of, v, 331; marriage of, v, 338; Chancellor of the Exchequer, v, 340; Prime Minister, v, 340; _Coningsby_, v, 341; _Contarini Fleming_, v, 324; _Endymion_, v, 342; _Lothair_, v, 342; _Sybil_, v, 341; _Tancred_, v, 341; _Vivian Gray_, v, 324; attitude toward Free Trade, v, 340; Agassiz compared with, v, 338; Mrs. Austen and, v, 327; Lady Blessington and, v, 333; Bulwer-Lytton and, v, 333; Lord Byron and, v, 324; Froude on, v, 326; Mrs. Wyndham Lewis and, v, 333; Macaulay compared with, v, 197; Mephisto compared with, v, 320; Thomas Moore and, v, 333; Lady Morgan and, v, 333; Napoleon compared with, v, 321; O'Connell and, v, 336; Count d'Orsay and, v, 333; Pitt and, v, 331; Voltaire compared with, viii, 295; N. P. Willis on, v, 329; Mrs. Willyums and, v, 344; on Cobden, ix, 140; on Charles Darwin, v, 341; on democracy, xi, 255; on the Established Church, xii, 155; on initiative, xiv, 152; on Dr. Jowett, viii, 351; on love, xiii, 158; quoted, iv, 160; v, 41; xiii, 408. Disraeli, Isaac, v, 322. Dissection, iv, 59. _Divine Comedy, The_, Dante, xiii, 134. Divine passion, the, ii, 36; iv, 242. Divine right of kings, ii, 83; v, 291. Divinity, idea of, vi, 49. Divinity of business, xi, 14. Division of labor, iii, 99. Divorce, i, 111; Milton on, v, 130; women and, viii, 133; Voltaire on, viii, 290. Dixon, photographer of animals, ii, 125. _Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde_, Stevenson, xiii, 27. Doctors, v, 203; Kant on, viii, 162. _Dodo_, Edward F. Benson, i, 148.