keeping up its interest, 301
-- frequently leads to intellectual deviation, 317
-- risk of eccentric men, 323
-- semi-publicity, 323

Marriages, international, 162

Maximilian, Emperor, execution of, 95

Mediaeval builders, 260

Medicine, profession of, 495

Meissonier, practice for self-instruction, 74

"Melencolia" of Albert Duerer, 424

Memory, defective, advantage of, 165
-- selecting, 166
-- rational art of, 169

Men, how helped by women, 296
-- disguise their thoughts from women, 330

Mental labor not injurious to healthy persons, 22
-- may aggravate disease, 18

Mental stimulants, 69
-- refusals should be heeded, 88
-- powers, immoderate use, 20
-- work, physical preparation, 479

Metaphor of the mountains, 228

"Midshipman Easy," allusion to, 188

Military genius of Napoleon, 448
-- profession, 497
-- profession, intellectual poverty of, 498

Milton, forced retirement, 411

Mind of a fashionable person, 380

Minds, three classes, 443

Miracles, belief in, 272

Miscalculation, bad results, 196

Miscellaneous reading, our debt to, 132

Mitford, Miss, quoted, 471

Mobility of fashionable taste, 392

Modern education, 116
-- inventions, power of, 256
-- languages, to student of, 149
-- languages, limits of soundness, 183
-- mind looks forward, 255

_Modern Painters_, result of long study, 229
-- work of genius and wealth, 229

Money, the influences of, 216
-- restraints of, 238
-- the guardian of peace, 238
-- accumulated labor of the past, 238
-- protector of intellectual life, 238

Montaigne, early education of, 121
-- purchases of books, 405
-- his tower, 550

Moore's trials with "Lalla Rookh," 72

Moral basis, the, 67
-- utility of culture, 101

Morality, individual theories, 99
-- public opinion regulates, 257
-- general advance of, 258

Morbid mind, cure for, 430

Morris, a diligent student, 450

Mother and son, difference in religious views, 284
-- the uneducated, 325

Mulready, preparation for new picture, 74

Multiplicity of modern studies, 120

Muscular Christian, to a, 42

Music, refining influence of, 44, 132
-- limits of soundness, 183

Napoleon, military genius of, 448

Napoleon III., overthrow of, 95

National intellectual life, 433

Native tong