"Old Oaken Bucket," The, 17. Originality, 170. Ouida, 17, 41. Page, T. N., 211. Pater, Walter, "Marius the Epicurean," 25. Periodicals, 162-166. Petrarch, 143. Philology not the study of literature, 79. Plato, quoted, 234. Plutarch, letter to his wife, 50. Poe, E. A., "Lygeia," 22; quoted, 104, 105, 237, 249; Tales, 21. Poetry, defined, 227; form is essential, 236, 239; how different from prose, 231, 232; office in education, 223; office of, 245-252; optimism of, 248-250; origin, 5; reading of, 244; _vs._ novels, 245. Pope, Alexander, 66. Prose, how different from poetry, 231-232; language of, 231. Public guided by the few, 10. Quincy, Josiah, 50. Rabelais, 133, 140. Reade, Charles, 189. Reading, first, 85; for amusement, 210; measure of character, 159; serious matter, 87; should be a pleasure, 71-73; test of, 86; works as units, 81. Realism, 69, 209. Reverence, 87. Rhythm, 220, 221, 227-229. Richardson, Samuel, 66. Rossetti, D. G., 181; "Sister Helen," 119, 120. Rousseau, "Confessions," 7. Ruskin, John, quoted, 95. Russell, W. Clark, 13, 211. Sanity, 140, 174. Schopenhauer, quoted, 63, 227. Science _vs._ art, 32. Science _vs._ literature, case of Darwin, 55. Scott, Sir Walter, 189. Sculpture, Aztec, 89; Greek, 89. Sensationalism, 26. Sentiment, 16, 157; defined, 15. Sentimentality, 16, 139, 157; defined, 15. Shakespeare, William, 3, 35, 41, 53, 58, 65, 77, 86, 92, 93, 107, 118, 124, 133, 140, 143, 145, 147, 173, 214, 216; as a classic, 152-153; condensation of, 93; "Cymbeline," 75; epithets of, 112, 231; for children, 197; "Hamlet," 81, 215; "King Lear," 81; "The Merchant of Venice," 115-118; "Othello," 81; quoted, 102, 104, 113, 114, 115, 229, 231, 239; "Sonnets," 8, 239. Shelley, P. B., 92, 131; quoted, 254; "Stanzas Written in Dejection," etc., 17. Shorthouse, J. H., "John Inglesant," 29. Sienkiewicz, 182; "The Deluge," 92. Sincerity, 12-15. Smile, sardonic, 95. Sophocles, 149. Spenser, Edmund, 123, 124, 143, 197. Standards, 141; of criticism, 161. Steele, Sir Richard, 66. Stephen, Leslie, 67. Stevenson, R. L., 181; "Kidnapped," 197; quoted, 57; "Treasure Island," 27, 197. Stockton, Frank, "The Adventures of Captain Horn," 27. Story, happy ending of a, 215; the short, 211-214. Stowe, Mrs. H. B., on Byron, 62. Suckling, Sir John, quoted, 106. Suggestion, 111-114, 118-120, 230, 235. Suttner, Baroness von, 161. Swift, Jonathan, 66; "Gulliver's Travels," 197. Swinburne, A. C., 181; "Atalanta in Calydon," 228; excess of melody, 236. Symbolism, 69. Sympathy between reader and author, 82. Talleyrand, quoted, 38. Tasso, 143. Taste a measure of character, 3. Technical excellence, 25.