Seward, William H., father of, iii, 262; birthplace of, in Florida, N. Y., iii, 262; Governor of N. Y., iii, 265; political work of, iii, 266; attitude of, on slavery, iii, 267; presidential candidacy of, iii, 271; as senator, iii, 270; sons of, iii, 273; wife of, iii, 273; secretary of State, iii, 273; attempted assassination of, iii, 275; death of, iii, 276; Henry Clay compared with, iii, 222; referred to, iv, 128; iv, 71. Sewing-machines, ii, 70. Sex, immanence of, ii, 202; religion and, ii, 201; in Nature, v, 103. Shadows, Rembrandt's use of, iv, 62. Shaftesbury, Earl of, referred to, iii, 37. Shakers, the, ii, 189. Shakespeare, William, father of, i, 304; relations with Ann Hathaway, i, 306; birthplace of, i, 309; epitaph of, i, 311; grave of, i, 311; Addison and, v, 246; Bacon and, vi, 47; Byron compared with, v, 204, 230; characters of, i, 270; childhood impressions of, iv, 341; Cromwell and, ix, 307; on democracy, i, 179; Dryden and, i, 124; Victor Hugo on, i, 200; Ingersoll on, xii, 319; Milton and, v, 119; Plato compared with, x, 116; quoted, xi, 284; referred to, i, p xxvii, 49, 134, 223, 248; iii, 28; iv, 81, 159; v, 26, 83, 97, 149; xii, 57; on religion, x, 350; Swedenborg compared with, viii, 177; Thackeray on, vi, 42; the universal man, vi, 178; vogue of, xiii, 209; Voltaire's opinion of, i, 134. Shareholding, xi, 25. "Sharps and Flats" Corner, Field's, v, 256. Sharp, William, on Dante Gabriel Rosetti, xiii, 271. Shaw, George Bernard, xi, 283; on absentee landlordism, xiii, 177; his description of the disagreeable girl, xiii, 111; on marriage, ix, 44; on Voltaire, viii, 320; on Whistler, vi, 341. Shawneetown, Ill., life of Ingersoll in, vii, 245. Sheedy, Colonel Patrick, vi, 72. Sheldon, Arthur F., and Cobden, ix, 138. Shelley, Mary W., birth of, ii, 293; mother of, ii, 293; meeting of, with Percy B. Shelley, 300; elopement of, ii, 303; literary work of, ii, 305; children of, ii, 306; death of, ii, 307; quoted, ii, 284; referred to, xiii, 106. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, influence of women on, ii, 287; compared with Emerson, ii, 287; apostle of the good, the true and the beautiful, ii, 288; meeting of, with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, ii, 289; marriage of, to Harriet Westbrook, ii, 297; death of, ii, 307; referred to, xii, 57; iv, 160; v, 50, 97; Aubrey Beardsley compared with, vi, 73; Lord Byron and, v, 229; Coleridge and, v, 310; Giorgione compared with, vi, 254; Southey and, v, 283; Spurgeon's estimate of, i, 135; Thorwaldsen and, vi, 116; Wordsworth compared with, i, 222. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, xii, 179; Gainsborough and, vi, 144; _The School for Scandal_, iii, 122; Daniel Webster compared with, iii, 204. Sherman, Gen. William Tecumseh, x, 159; on war, xiv, 313. Ship-money, ix, 315. _Shirley_, Charlotte Bronte, ii, 112. _Shoeing_, Landseer, iv, 320.