Renan, M., charges Second Empire with vulgarity 367 Repugnances to be overcome, 87 Resisting power of adult brain, 162 Rest, necessary in intellectual labor, 454 Resting, the art of, 455 Restoration of French monarchy, 94 Restraints of money, 238 Retreats demanded by intellectual life, 221 Return to barbarism, 356 Rich man a director of work, 219 -- social diversions of, 220 -- vulgar people, 242 Road to success, commonly gradual increase, 226 Roman Catholic, belief of, 272 Romans, education of, 118 Roscoe, William, Italian studies, 134 Rosse, Lord, colossal telescope, 220 -- useful application of wealth, 220 Rossini, advice to young composer, 195 Ruskin, Mr., value of artistic perception, 62 -- extract from _Modern Painters_, 215 -- wealth of material, 229 -- career of, 229 Sacerdotal system, 270 Sadness of intellectual workers, 426 Sainte Beuve, example of self-discipline, 83 -- system of living, 236 -- atheist and scientist, 279 -- quoted, 458 Saint-Bernard at Lake Leman, 547 Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, in blindness, 57 Saint-Hilaire, Geoffrey, at Alexandria, 540 Sand, George, working under pressure, 23 -- quoted, 86 -- novel of "Valvèdre," 319 Satisfactions of intellectual riches, 424 Schiller, literary hack-work of, 233 Schoolmaster, thankless office of, 337 Science, methods and laws of, 283 -- requires heat and heroism, 276 -- of living, 395 Scientific cookery, importance of, 35 -- writers and thinkers, independence, 258 -- at variance with clergy, 274 Scott, Sir Walter, physical exercise, 24 -- habits of, 33 -- writing-closet, 549 Secular power resists ecclesiastical, 258 Selection of knowledge, 108 Selfishness of authors, 471 Senses, usefulness to intellectual life, 60 Separation of languages, 159 Shelley, boating exercise, 24 -- the morality of, 99 -- writings unprofitable, 232 -- desire for solitude, 409 Ships of the line, old, 262 Shopkeepers, treatment by English authors, 348 Siege of Paris, 95 Silent student, attainments, 444 Simon Jules, allusion to, 141 Sincerity induced by culture, 332 Skill, indifference to, 502 Skip judiciously in reading, 211 Small talk in England and France, 399 Smiles, Mr., _Character_ quoted, 506 Smith, Sydney, quoted, 173 -- common sense of, 277 Smoking, moderate and excessive, 39 Social diversions of the rich, 220 Society, penalties for infringing custom, 247 -- _will be obeyed_, 248 -- desires harmony, 249 -- and solitude, 374 -- fashionable demands, 380 -- external deference to culture, 393 Solitude and society, 374 -- traditional view of, 405 -- effects upon man, 406 Soul and poverty, reconciliation, 242 Soundness, requisite to best success, 179 Spain, secular power resists ecclesiastical, 250 Spenser, the fables of, 251