Lanier, Sidney, quoted, 218..
Lavater, quoted, 295.
Lecky, quoted, 101.

Letter-writing, chapter on, 263;
chief requisites of, 267.
Lewes, quoted, 67.
Lie, lay, 77.

Lily, quoted, 320.
Literature, 229.
Litotes, 38.

Locke, quoted, 128, 131, 133.
Lockhart, quoted, 183.
Logic, service of, to rhetoric, 2.
London Times, quoted, 83, 132.
Longfellow, quoted, 11, 30, 66,
67, 69, 110, 114, 133, 319.
Longinus, 241.

Long sentences and short, 9.
Loose sentence, 11.

Love, beneficence of, 116.
Lowell, quoted, 7, 23, 36, 71, 116,
117, 123, 125.
Lyric, the, 328.

Milton, quoted, 4, 11, 13, 25, 26,
31, 32, 38, 41, 46, 60, 70, 74, 90,
98, 100, 110, 112, 138, 169, 183,
210, 244, 245, 247, 248, 314, 315,
317, 319.
Mimesis, 23.

Mitford, Miss, 69, 91, 92.
Mock-heroic, 251.
Money, 51.

Montgomery, quoted, 131, 132.
Moods, sequence of, 70.
Mysteries, the, 333.

Napoleon, quoted, 6, 137.
Narrative, definition of, 185;
compared with description, 185;
objective and subjective, 186;
importance of selection in, 186;
order of, illustrated from Pres-
cott's Conquest of Mexico, 187;
essentials of good, 188.
Neologisms, 64.

Newman, Dr. J. H., quoted, 157.
Nichol, Professor, quoted, 69, 93.
Notion, discriminated from prop-

osition, 189; methods of ex-
pounding, 189.

Novel, the, approaches to the
modern conception of, 288; his-
torical and ethical, 289; motif
of the, 289; plot, 290; charac-
ters, 290; purpose in, 291; test
of the worth of, 292; reading
of, 293; power of, 294.
Novelist, the, as teacher and
artist, 291, 293; test of his
worth, 292.

Observance, observation, 77.
Obsolete words, 64.
Ode, the, 328.

Oliphant, Mrs., quoted, 71, 92,
93.

Parable, 33.
Paragraph, 14.

Parentheses, objectionable, 86;
marks of, 135.

Parker, Theodore, quoted, 58, 88,
129, 133, 193.

Parody, 250.

Pastoral, the, 330.

Pathos, 236.

Pecksniff, character of, 261.
Period, rules for use of, 129.
Periodic sentence, 10; and loose,

12.

Periphrasis, 30.

Personification, defined, 33; de-
grees of, 33; force of, 34.
Perspicuity, defined, 62; impor-
tance of, 62; relative, 62; puri- |
ty an element of, 63; propriety,
72; simplicity, 80; conciseness,
84; unity, 86; imagery, 88;
summary, 89.

Philosophy, Emerson's definition

of, 6; nature and comprehen-
sion of, 189; and science, dis-
criminated, 281.
Picturesque, the, 237.
Pleonasm, 101.

Plot, in the novel, 290.
Poe, quoted, 110, 113.
Poetry, chapter on, 308; diction
of, 308; rhythm, 311; metre,
312; rhyme, 317; blank, 318;
what constitutes, 324; defini-
tions of, 327; species, 328; uses
of, 335.

Polysyndeton, 25.

Pronouns, syntax of, 66, 67.
Proof, burden of, 204.
Proper names, 52.
Proposition, defined, 6; discrimi-
nated from notion, 189; meth-
ods of expounding a, 191.
Propriety, defined, 78; offences
against, 78; an element of en-
ergy, 95.
Provincialisms, 65.
Pun, 31.

Punctuation, logic of, 121; pe-
riod, 129; question-mark, 130;
exclamation-point, 130; colon,
130; semicolon, 131; comma,
132; dash, 134; curves, 135;
quotes, 136.

Purity, defined, 63; violations of,
64.

Quarterly Review, quoted, 92.
Quintilian, quoted, 207.
Quotation, 114, 172.
Quotation-points, rules for use of,
136.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted, 61.
Randolph, John, quoted, 25.
Reading, relation of, to style,
151; to invention, 159; Gib-
bon's method of, 160.
Reasoning, deductive, 195; in-
ductive, 196; a priori, a poste-
riori, 201.

Reductio ad Absurdum, 204.
Repetition, 99.

Revision, value of, 150.
Rhetoric, province of, 1; place of,
among the arts, 2; relation of,
to the sciences, 2; utility of, 3;
rules of, what, 4; defined, 5.
Rhyme, 317.
Rhyne Royal, 322.
Rhythm, in prose, 110; in po-

etry, 311.
Richardson, Prof. C. F., quoted,
127.

134, 136, 249, 251, 315.

Preposition, final, 117.

Prescott, quoted, 180.

Ridicule, defined, 260; use and

abuse of, 262.

Ridiculous, the, chapter on, 249.

Romance, the, 287.

Rogers, quoted, 67.

93, 226.

Soul, derivation of the word, 43;
immortality of, 199.

Southey, quoted, 74, 131.

Spectator, the, quoted, 70, 90,
100, 101, 123.

Spencer, quoted, 6, 58.

Sprague, Charles, quoted, 24.
Spurgeon, quoted, 106.

ception of, 244.

Satire, 260.

Saxon, force of, 81, 82.

Scenery, spring and autumn, 235.
Schiller, quoted, 7.
Science, chapter on, 279.
Scotsman, the, quoted, 137.
Scott, quoted, 41, 67, 68, 98, 316.
Semicolon, rules for use of, 131.
Sentence, Aristotle's definition
of, 6; simple, 6; complex, 7;
compound, 7; forms of the,
according to use, 7; colloca-
tion of words in, 8; long and
short, 8; periodic and loose,
10, 86; balanced, 13.
Shakespeare, a painstaking writ-
er, 3; quoted, 13, 26, 27, 31, 36,
40, 41, 58, 61, 63, 64, 67, 68, 74,
75, 83, 84, 89, 91, 95, 96, 123,
126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 171,
182, 187, 215, 246, 247, 295, 301,
303, 310, 314, 320.
Shall, will, 73, 74.
Shelley, quoted, 18, 46, 47, 57,

215, 217, 310, 318, 322.
Sheridan, quoted, 70, 89, 94, 170.
Shirley, quoted, 317.

Short sentences, Coleridge on, 9.
Simile, 35.

Simplicity, relation of, to perspi-
cuity, 80; to energy, 95.
Simpson, Bishop, training of, in
oratory, 307.
Sit, set, 77.

Smith, Dr. A., quoted, 33, 127.
Smith, Sidney, quoted, 71, 91, 92,
105, 137, 138, 254.
Smollet, quoted, 67, 107, 133, 139.
Socialism, 66,72.
Song, the, 328.

Stanza, the, 321.
Status, the, 156.

Stedman, E. C., quoted, 69, 115,
138, 327.

Steele, quoted, 75, 79.
Stephen, Leslie, quoted, 71, 93,
107, 125, 153.
Sterne, quoted, 128, 284.
Stormont, Lord, quoted, 94.
Stowe, Mrs. H. B., quoted, 68, 79.
Strikes, 214.

of

Studies, how to be estimated, 15.
Style, German and French, 9;
periodic and loose, 12, 86; sim-
ple, 80; concise, 84; unity in,
86; a popular, 95; economy of,
attention in, 97; elegance in,
109; harmony, 111; variety,
113; mechanical aids to, 121;
defined, 141; derivation
the word, 142; subjectively
considered, 142; objectively,
143; diversities of, 143; desig-
nations of, 144; leading prop-
erties of, 146; philosophy of,
147; importance of a good,
148; cultivation of, 149; Goethe
on, 153; economy of attention
in, 185.

Subject, choice of a, 154; deter-
mination of, 155; analysis of,
163.

Sublime, the, chapter on, 241;
elements of, 243; physical and
moral, 241; chief criterion of,
242; in literature, 244; and the
beautiful, compared, 247.
Summaries, value of, 99.
Swift, quoted, 66, 70, 90, 91, 103,
252.
Swinburne, quoted, 26.