Unitarianism, v, 299; ix, 279; Pantheism and, ix, 295; Universalism and, vii, 326. United States Steel Corporation, the, xi, 297. Universal coinage, xii, 114. Universal energy, v, 123. Universality of great souls, vi, 97. University, advantages of the, x, 166; origin of, xiii, 123. University of Hard Knocks, i, p xxxiv; i, 249, 344; iii, 218. Unknowable, the, viii, 174. Upsala, university of, viii, 185. Uranus, discovery of, xii, 186. Utah, prisons in, ii, 191. Utopia, v, 238. _Utopia_, Sir Thomas More, x, 171. Vaccination, Wallace on, xii, 393. _Vailima Prayers_, Stevenson, xiii, 10. Valedictorians, vi, 325. Value sense, the, v, 70. _Vampire, The_, Burne-Jones, vi, 75. Vanderbilt, Commodore, iii, 261; his experience with his son William, viii, 289. Vanderbilts, the, and Meissonier, iv, 139. Van Dyck, Anthony, Cowley's elegy on, iv, 172; the name Van Dyck in Holland, iv, 173; parents of, iv, 173; influence of Rubens on, iv, 112, 173; Rubens' jealousy of, iv, 176; love-affairs of, iv, 181, 195; residence at Saventhem, iv, 183; journeys of, in Italy, iv, 187; residence in England, iv, 192; appearance of, iv, 193; his paintings of Charles I, iv, 195; marriage of, iv, 196; death of, iv, 197; monument of, iv, 198; grave of, iv, 198; quoted, iv, 183. Vane, Sir Henry, and Anne Hutchinson, ix, 358. Van Horne, Sir William, xi, 425. Vanity, v, 238. _Vanity Fair_, Thackeray, i, 233. Vasari, Italian painter, iv, 8; vi, 19; quoted, iv, 163; on the Bellinis, vi, 253; Cellini and, vi, 288. Vase, a, defined, xiii, 76. Vassar, Matthew, xi, 242. Vatican, the, iv, 101; dampness of, iv, 296; Michelangelo's home in the, iv, 18. Vegetarianism, viii, 53. Velasquez, Diego de Silva, birth of, vi, 158; inspirer of artists, vi, 157, 167; Herrera and, vi, 160; Murillo and, vi, 183; Olivarez and, vi, 167; Pacheco and, vi, 161; Rubens and, vi, 181; the wife of, vi, 164; pictures by, in England, iv, 189; influence of, vi, 184; Raphael Menges on, vi, 158; Reynolds on, vi, 158; Ruskin on, vi, 158; Stevenson on, vi, 154; Sir David Wilkie and, vi, 158; Whistler on, vi, 177; influence of, on Whistler, vi, 346; Fortuny compared with, iv, 208. Venice, canals of, vi, 23, 257; Antwerp compared with, xiv, 224; wonders of, iv, 56; glass-factories of, iv, 155; Venus, ii, 43. Verdi, Giuseppe, Bulwer-Lytton on, xiv, 274; early hardships of, xiv, 282; influence of Hugo on, xiv, 292. Verestchagin, Russian painter, xii, 89. Vergil, i, 179. Verne, Jules, i, 164; vi, 146. Vernon, Admiral, iii, 16. Veronese, Paul, iv, 60; pictures by, in England, iv, 189; his fondness for dogs, vi, 240; Tintoretto compared with, iv, 148. Verrocchio, Andrea del, Italian painter, vi, 51. Vespasian, Emperor, iv, 102. Vesuvius, ii, 96. _Vicar of Wakefield_, Goldsmith, i, 294. Victoria, Queen of England, i, 72; iv, 324; vi, 139; Alfred Tennyson and, v, 84.