Landseer, parents of, iv, 311; brothers of, iv, 312; birthplace of, iv, 313; education of, iv, 314; genius of, iv, 315; popularity of, iv, 320; friends of, iv, 321; friendship of Queen Victoria for, iv, 324; influence of, iv, 326; genius of, iv, 329. Lang, Andrew, ii, 17; ix, 395. Langenthal, Henry, and Froebel, x, 258. Language, a form of expression, iv, 159. Lao-tsze and Confucius, x, 63. Lassalle, Ferdinand, xiii, 367. _Last Judgment, The_, Michelangelo, iv, 33. _Last Supper, The_, Leonardo, v, 229; vi, 54. Latin, knowledge of, iv, 288. _La Traviata_, Verdi, xiv, 292. Laud, William, Archbishop of Canterbury, ix, 315, 328, 337. Laurence, the artist, Turner's treatment of, i, 135. Laurens, Henry, ii, 77. Lautner, Max, vi, 65. Law, of altruistic injury, the, xi, 390; of antithesis, the, i, 164; of attraction or gravitation, xii, 272; Col. Bumble's opinion of, ix, 88; as a business, vii, 404; of compensation, ii, 238; iv, 226; vii, 349; xi, 149; xiv, 41; of the correlation of forces, xii, 272; of diminishing returns, x, 308; of entail, v, 70; of heredity, vii, 185; of natural selection, v, 95; of pivotal points, x, 308; profession of, iii, 99; of reversion to type, ii, 192. _Law of Civilization and Decay, The_, Brooks Adams, xii, 89. Lawsuits, county, vii, 245. Law-wolf, ix, 311. Lawyers, class B, vi, 174; Kant on, viii, 163; Philadelphia, vi, 306. Lear compared with Milton, v, 140. Learning, knowledge and wisdom, x, 74. Lease, Mrs., of Kansas, v, 145. _Leaves of Grass_, Whitman, i, 172, 179, 181; iv, 259; xiii, 18. Lecky, the historian, quoted, xi, 204; on Methodism, ix, 49. _Lectures on English Humorists_, Thackeray, i, 239. _Lecture on Homer_, Gladstone, i, 102. _Lectures to Young Men_, Beecher, vii, 357. Lee, Ann, founder American Society of Shakers, x, 318. Lee, Richard Henry, iii, 67, 89. Le Gallienne, Richard, i, p xxvii; v, 246; quoted, xiii, 220; referred to, v, 218. Legion of Honor, Cross of, ii, 159. Legitimate perquisites, v, 44. Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Baron von, xii, 21; referred to, v, 306. Leicester, Earl of, iv, 25. Leighton, Frederick, friend of the Brownings, v, 64. Leipzig, university of, vii, 134. Leonard, Dr. Charles H., on Starr King, vii, 313. Leonardo da Vinci, i, 122; i, 341; iv, 6, 59, 90, 99; v, 230; xiv, 40; appearance of, vi, 50; birth of, vi, 46; mother of, vi, 46; Aristotle compared with, viii, 91; Bandello and, vi, 50; Cesare Borgia and, vi, 43; Correggio and, vi, 233; Sir William Davenant compared with, vi, 48; Edison compared with, vi, 41; Hamerton on, vi, 50; _Last Supper_ of, vi, 54; Michelangelo and, vi, 28. Leo X, Pope, iv, 31; vi, 31; quoted, vi, 13. _Les Huguenots_, Meyerbeer, characterized, xiv, 126. Leslie, Charles R., American artist, iv, 321. _Les Miserables_, Hugo, i, 187. _Letters of a Self-Made Merchant to His Son_, Lorimer, xi, 183. Letters of indulgence, vii, 126.