per limitations of, 106
-- how rich may best serve its cause, 323
-- of middle classes, 241
-- independent of sex, 304
-- induces sincerity, 332
-- hostility of democracy, 369
-- high, isolates, 407
-- facilities for obtaining, 432
-- individual, national gain, 433

Curate, poor, in prosperous community, 287

Custom and tradition, 246
-- the one law of society, 248
-- a necessary aid to religion, 248

Custom nature's provision for reform, 250
-- precious legacy of the past, 251
-- not final, but a form, 251
-- opposition unphilosophical, 251
-- how to procure abolition, 252
-- resistance sometimes imperative, 258

Cuvier, a model student, 427

Decline of old prejudices, 522

Democracy and aristocracy, 341
-- envious, 360
-- its levelling _down_ tendency, 363
-- intolerance of, 366
-- metropolitan and provincial, 368
-- hostile to culture, 369

De Saussure, labors of, 229

De Senancour, 232
-- quoted, 406

Descent of man, 274

De Stael, Madame, literary methods, 62

Development of natural gifts, 172
-- of faculty, 175

Deviation produced by marriage, 317

Dickens, narrowness of, 347
-- study described, 549

Discipline necessary to success, 81
-- object of, 84
-- value and necessity, 449
-- of a professional career, 504

Discussions with ladies, best course, 337

Disease, effect of mental labor, 18

Diseased, experience of, 55

Disinterestedness, most essential virtue, 91

Displacement of native tongue, 157

Dissatisfaction of cultured persons, 431

Distinctions in trade, 521

Disuse of native tongue, 156

Diversity of belief in religion, 265

Domestic picture, a, 57

Dore, Gustave, painting-room, 549

Dress-coat, the young gentleman lacking, 245

Drill, intellectual, advantages of, 459

Drinks, question of, 35

Drudgery in all work, 71

Dullness of general conversation, 398

Dunces, illustrious, 80

Duerer, Albert, _Melencolia_, 424

Duty, occasional, of eccentricity, 253
-- of cultured men to society, 401

Eagerness of young authors, 419

Eccentricity sometimes a moral duty, 253
-- sometimes an intellectual duty, 253

Ecclesiastical authority, remarkable decline, 256

Economy of time, 177

Education, 104
-- use of the word, 173
-- completeness of, 171