Shelley, Percy Bysshe; biographical note on, V, 151; articles by--in defense of poetry, 151; the baths of Caracalla, 155; the ruins of Pompeii, 158. Smith, Adam; biographical note on, IV, 163; articles by--of ambition misdirected, 163; the advantages of a division of labor, 166. Smith, John; biographical note on, IX, 3; his story of Pocahontas, 3. Southey, Robert; biographical note on, V, 80; Nelson's death at Trafalgar, 80. Spencer, Herbert; biographical note on, VI, 173; articles by--the origin of professional occupations, 173; self-dependence and paternalism, 181; the ornamental and the useful in education, 186; reminiscences of his boyhood, 191; a tribute to E. L. Youmans, 195; why he never married, 197. Stael, Madame de; biographical note on, VII, 178; of Napoleon Bonaparte, 178. Steele, Sir Richard; biographical note on, IV, 3; articles by--of companions and flatterers, 3; the story-teller and his art, 7; Sir Roger and the widow, 10; the Coverley family portraits, 16; on certain symptoms of greatness, 21; how to be happy tho married, 26. Sterne, Laurence; biographical note on, IV, 123; articles by--the starling in captivity, 123; to Moulines with Maria, 127; the death of LeFevre, 129; passages from the romance of my Uncle Toby and the widow, 131. Stevenson, Robert Louis; biographical note on, VI, 247; articles by--Francis Villon's terrors, 247; the lantern bearers, 251. Suetonius; biographical note on, II, 231; articles by--the last days of Augustus, 231; the good deeds of Nero, 236; the death of Nero, 241. Swift, Jonathan; biographical note on, III, 216; on pretense in philosophers, 216; on the hospitality of the vulgar, 221; the art of lying in politics, 224; a meditation upon a broomstick, 228; Gulliver among the giants, 230. Tacitus; biographical note on, II, 177; articles by--from Republican to Imperial Rome, 177; the funeral of Germanicus, 183; the death of Seneca, 189; the burning of Rome by order of Nero, 193; the burning of the capitol at Rome, 202; the siege of Cremona, 205; Agricola, 212. Taine, Hippolite Adolphe; biographical note on, VIII, 38; articles by--on Thackeray as a satirist, 38; on the king's getting up for the day, 43. Taylor, Jeremy; biographical note on, III, 153; on the benefits of adversity, 153. Thackeray, William M.; biographical note on, VI, 62; articles by--the imperturbable Marlborough, 62; the ball before the battle of Waterloo, 65; the death of Colonel Newcome, 75; London in the time of the first George, 80. Thiers, Louis Adolph; biographical note on, VII, 201; the burning of Moscow, 201. Thoreau, Henry David; biographical note on, X, 99; articles by--the building of his house at Walden Pond, 99; how to make two small ends meet, 103; on reading the ancient classics, 115; of society and solitude, 120.