Educator, professional, practice the best, 226 Egotism of the uneducated mother, 324 Electricity practically annihilates distance, 257 Elevation of intellectual life, 55 Emerson's rule, 472 Empire, Second, vulgarity of, 367 Énault, Louis, study of languages, 181 Encouragement to the poor student, 243 Energy, human, limitation of, 244 English officer in Paris, 163 -- strong to resist voluptuousness, 218 -- recognize refining influence of wealth, 240 -- gentry, free expenditures, 241 -- gentleman, methods of culture, 241 -- clergy, criticism of literature, 277 -- tradesman, anecdote of, 313 -- correspondent quoted, 463 Englishman, eminent, poor remuneration, 234 Engraving, 76 _Ennui_ in work, 423 Equality, theoretic, 372 Erdan, M., letters by, 469 Essential virtue, disinterestedness, chief, 91 Etchers, the woes of, 76 Etiquette of society bar to intellectual advance, 326 European civilization, service of church, 261 -- governments resist power of church, 258 Excesses, intellectual, dangers of, 101 Excitement, cerebral, intellectual products, 446 Exercise, bodily, need of, 49 Exeter, bishop of, quoted, 70 Experience, the lesson, 191 -- advantages of, 420 Experiment replaces tradition, 254 Experiments on public taste, 235 Facilities for obtaining culture, 432 Facility of acquiring languages, 161 Faculty, development of, 175 Fane, Julian, religion of, 267 -- late hours, 467 Faraday, intellectual career, 279, 505 -- a Sandemanian, 280 Fashionable education, 380 -- religion, 393 Fickleness of fashion, 392 Fine arts, technical difficulties, 76 -- pursuit of, 498 Five facts regarding languages, 152 France, invasion by Germans, 95 -- intellectual isolation, 148 -- vulgar language of people, 365 -- low condition of _bourgeoisie_, 367 French monarchy, question of, 94 -- college, to a principal of, 137 -- cook, perfection of art, 104 -- officer, incident of, 362 -- peasantry, intellectual apathy, 241 -- peasantry, parsimony, 241 -- peasantry without newspapers, 466 -- school of painting, 73 -- students of English, isolated, 122 Frenchman writes a school-primer with good results, 234 Fresco-painters, troubles of, 76 Friendships of the intellect, reality of, 375 -- succession of, 376 Future, attraction of, 255 Galton, Mr., advice to travellers, 416 Garibaldi, Italian follower of, 45 Generation, our, poetical events, 95 Genius, popular impression of, 447 -- military, of Napoleon, 448 -- dependent upon culture, 450 Gentlemen, absence of, on Continent, 364 German invasion of France, 95 Germans, intellectual labor of, 200 Germany, secular power resists ecclesiastical, 258 Girardin, St. Marc, 255 "_Give it time_," 193