Lettre de cachet, the, xiii, 349; ix, 378. Levi, origin of name, x, 30. Lewes, George Henry, i, 57; v, 148; Augustine Birrell on, viii, 339; Comte and, viii, 261; Herbert Spencer and, viii, 337; Thackeray on, viii, 337. Lewis, Alfred Henry, i, p xxvii; ix, 311; x, 344. Lewis and Clark Expedition, the, xi, 220. Lewis, Fielding, iii, 15. Lewis, Lawrence, iii, 15. Leyden, Lucas van, vi, 78. _L'Historie de Romanticisme_, Gautier, i, 192. Liberal denominations, the, ix, 184. Liberal thought, obligations of, xiii, 87. _Liberator, The_, William Lloyd Garrison and, vii, 394. Liberty, Patrick Henry on, vii, 276. Licentiousness, vii, 73. Life, canned, vi, 170; forms of, vi, 228; the game of, v, 158; Robert Ingersoll on, vii, 235; the larger, viii, 204; a privilege, vii, 118; the privileges of, vi, 151. Life-insurance, value of, viii, 300. _Life of Charles XII_, Voltaire, viii, 297. _Life of Frederick_, Carlyle, viii, 312. _Life of Jesus_, Strauss, i, 55. _Life of Johnson_, Hawkins, v, 148. _Life of Washington_, Weems, iii, 7; v, 41; vii, 199. _Life's Uses_, Harriet Martineau, ii, 68. Ligereaux, Saint Andre de, xi, 390. Light and shade, Rembrandt's experiments in, iv, 61. Lily Dale, i, 321. Lincoln, Abraham, boyhood of, vi, 102; face of, iv, 52; speech of, at Gettysburg, iii, 278; home of, at Springfield, Ill., iii, 287; acquaintances of, iii, 288; stories of, iii, 288; Ingersoll's speech on, iii, 291; assassination of, iii, 300; the country of, iii, 303; early home of, iii, 303; as clerk in country store, iii, 303; law office of, iii, 303; debates with Douglas, iii, 304; nomination of, iii, 271, 304; election of, iii, 273, 304; home ties of, iii, 305; example of, iii, 305; Beecher compared with, vii, 348; Beecher on the death of, vii, 379; contrasted with John Brown and Marat, vii, 214; Julius Caesar compared with, viii, 72; attitude of California toward, vii, 339; his call for volunteers, xiii, 84; Simon Cameron, secretary of war, and, xi, 276; Andrew Carnegie compared with, xi, 295; Winston Churchill on, vii, 21; his Cooper Union speech, xi, 258; George W. Curtis and, i, 165; Douglas and, xiii, 187; Emancipation Proclamation of, ix, 56; General Grant and, xii, 313; humor of, i, 239; Ingersoll on, ix, 331; on the American juror, x, 366; Starr King and, vii, 341; and the law of diminishing returns, x, 309; love of, for memory of his mother, vii, 349; love of, for Seward, iii, 274; to the portrait-painter, xiii, 118; quoted, iv, 128; xi, 276; vii, 286; referred to, i, 248; ii, 238; iii, 174; v, 201; vi, 320; xi, 370; xiii, 85; xiv, 40; on responsibility, xi, 287; reference to the Sangamon steamboat, xii, 318; visit of, to W. H. Seward, iii, 272; Southern feeling and, x, 111; on stepmother-love, xii, 398; Washington and, iii, 29; Henry Watterson on, vii, 393; Walt Whitman and, i, 164.