Thucydides; biographical note on, I, 25; articles by--the Athenians and Spartans contrasted, 25; the plague at Athens, 38; the sailing of the Athenian fleet for Sicily, 45; the completion of the Athenian defeat at Syracuse, 52. Tocqueville, Alexis de; biographical note on, VIII, 3; on the tyranny of the American majority, 3. Tolstoy, Count Leo; biographical note on, VIII, 252; Shakespeare not a great genius, 252. Turgeneff, Ivan; biographical note on, VIII, 239; Bazarov's death, 239. Vasari, Giorgio; biographical note on, VIII, 192; of Raphael and his early death, 192. Vigny, Alfred de; biographical note on, VII, 222; Richelieu's way with his master, 222. Ville-Hardouin, Geoffrey de; biographical note on, VII, 23; the sack of Constantinople, 23. Voltaire, Francois Arouet; biographical note on, VII, 160; articles by--of Bacon's greatness, 160; England's regard for men of letters, 164. Walpole, Horace; biographical note on, IV, 149; articles by--on Hogarth, 149; the war in America, 154; the death of George II, 155. Walton, Izaak; biographical note on, III, 92; articles by--the antiquity of angling, 92; of the trout, 96; the death of George Herbert, 101. Ward, Artemus; biographical note on, X, 191; Forrest as Othello, 191. Washington, George; biographical note on, IX, 79; articles by--to his wife on taking command of the army, 79; of his army in Cambridge, 81; to the Marquis de Chastellux on his marriage, 84. White, Gilbert; biographical note on, IV, 158; on the chimney swallow, 158. Wordsworth, William; biographical note on, V, 23; a poet defined, 23. Wyclif, John; biographical note on, III, 4; a passage from his translation of the Bible, 14. Xenophon; biographical note on, I, 68; articles by--the character of Cyrus the younger, 68; the Greek army in the snows of Armenia, 75; the battle of Leuctra, 81; the army of the Spartans, 84; how to choose and manage saddle horses, 87. Zola, Emile; biographical note on, VIII, 48; Napoleon III in time of war, 48. * * * * *