ncy A., 184.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe,
his books prohibited in the Ward family, 58.

Sherret, Miss,
her interest in schools for girls of the middle class, 333.

Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha Butt),
her stories, 48.

Siddons, Mrs. William (Sarah Kemble),
fund for her monument, 104;
her daughter, 131.

Silliman, Prof. Benjamin,
of Yale College, 22.

Smith, Alfred,
real estate agent of Newport, 238.

Smith, Mrs. Seba, 166.

Smith, Rev. Sydney,
calls on the Howes: his reputation as a wit, 91;
appearance, 92;
anecdotes of, 92-95;
pleasantry about Lord Morpeth, 107.

Smith, Mrs. Sydney,
Mrs. Howe calls on, 94.

Somerville, Mrs. (Mary Fairfax),
intimate with Mrs. Jameson, 42.

"Sonnambula, La,"
given in New York, 15.

Sontag, Mme.,
at Mrs. Benzon's, 435.

Sothern, Edward Askew,
in "The World's Own," 230.

Southworth, Mrs. F. H. (Emma D. E. Nevitt),
attends Mrs. Howe's lecture in Washington, 309.

Spielberg,
the Austrian fortress of,
Italian patriots imprisoned in, 119, 120.

Spinoza, 212, 309.

Stanton, Theodore, 420.

Steele, Tom,
friend of Daniel O'Connell, 113.

Stone, Lucy, 305;
speaks for woman suffrage in Boston, 375;
her skill and zeal, 377, 378;
her work for that cause, 380, 381;
prominent at the woman's congress, 385.

Stonehenge, Druidical stones at, 140.

Story, Chief Justice, 169.

Stowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher,
her "Uncle Tom's Cabin," 253.

Sue, Eugene,
his "Mysteres de Paris," 204.

Sumner, Albert,
brother of the senator, 402.

Sumner, Charles,
first known to the Wards through Mrs. Howe's brother Samuel, 49;
takes the Wards to the Perkins Institution, 81, 82;
Thomas Carlyle's estimate of, 96, 97;
inability to sing, 163;
his first appearance at the Ward home, 168;
his friends, 169;
his political opinions, 170;
his temperament and aspect, 171-173;
attitude on prison reform, 173, 174;
his eloquence, 175;
his culture, 176;
his life in Washington, 177-180;
opposes the annexation of Santo Domingo, 181;
his death, 182;
defeats Webster for the Senate, 218;
his breach with Count Gurowski, 223;
grieves at Gurowski's death, 226;
dines at Mrs. Eames's, 308.

Sumner, Charles Pinckney,
sheriff, anecdote of, 171, 172.

Sumner, Mrs. C.