uest, inasmuch as he entertains
himself with Books, and Birds'-nests, and an ancient Viol which he has
brought down here: as also a Bagpipe (his favourite instrument), only
leaving the 'Bag' behind: he having to supply its functions from his own
lungs. But he will leave me to-morrow or next day; and with June will
come my two Nieces from Lowestoft: and then the Longest Day will come,
and we shall begin declining toward Winter again, after so shortly
escaping from it.

This very morning I receive The Diary of John Ward, Vicar of Stratford on
Avon from 1648 to 1679--with some notices of W. S. which you know all
about. And I am as ever

Sincerely yours
LITTLEGRANGE.

Is not this Letter legible enough?

INDEX

Academy (Royal), pictures at, 49

Aconites, "New Year's Gifts," 211, 231

Aide (H.), 202

Anstey's 'Vice Versa,' 253

Arkwright (Mrs.), 87

Autumn colours, 112

Bagehot's Essays, 170

Barton (Bernard), 174

Basselin (Olivier), quoted, 23

Beard (Dr.), 48

Belvidere Hat, 163

Beranger, 20-22

Beuve (Sainte), Causeries, 40, 53

Blackbird _v._ Nightingale, 46

Blakesley (J. W.), Dean of Lincoln, 78, 233

Boccaccio, 117

Brown (Dr. John), 253

Burns, compared with Beranger, 20-22; quoted, 37

Burrows (General), his defeat by Ayoub Khan, 193

Calderon, 63, 185

Candide, 174

Carlyle (T.), 17; forwards Mr. Ruskin's letter to E. F.G., 19; his Kings
of Norway, 61, 65; presented with a Medal and Address on his 80th
birthday, 88, 91; vehement against Darwin and the Turk, 110; on Sir
Walter Scott, 131; is reading Shakespeare and Boswell's Hebrides, 170;
becomes very feeble, 203; is buried at Ecclefechan, 206, 207; his
Reminiscences, 215, 218; his Letters to Emerson, 246, 256

Carlyle (Mrs.), her Letters, 257, 259

Carlyle (Mrs. Alexander), 163, 170, 186, 207, 215, 222

Chateaubriand's father, 59

Chorley (H. F.), his death, 11; Life of, 38, 53

Clerke Saunders, 164

Coriolanus, 139

Corneille, 73

Country church, Scene in, 46

Cowell (Professor), 155

Crabbe (G.), the Poet, quoted, 39, 43, 55, 59, 118; his portrait by
Pickersgill, 39,150; article on him in the Cornhill, 58; his fancy
quickened by a fall of snow, 198

Crabbe (George), Vicar of Bredfield, the poet's son, 43

Crabbe (George), Rector of Merton, the poet's grandson, 202, 225

Deffand (Madame du), 53

De Quincey (T.), on Janus Weathercock, 90

Derby Day, 186

De Soyres (John), E. F.G.'s nephew,