y and the soul, 242

Refinements of a language, 164

Reform and progress of custom, 250

Refusals, mental, should be heeded, 86

Regret for lost time, 456

Regularity of work, 446

Regulated economy of time, 203

Relation between preference and capacity, 87
-- of trivial events to great principles, 329

Religion as a stimulant, 69
-- requires aid of custom, 248
-- different views of mother and son, 264
-- indefinable, 271
-- according to popular instinct, 272
-- intellectual foundation of, 273
-- influence of caste-law, 366

Religious vitality, periods of, 265
-- teaching, 270
-- and intellectual questions, difference, 270
-- creed does not weaken critical faculty, 277
-- belief, test of, 272

Rembrandt, answer to Hoogstraten, 378

Renan, M., charges Second Empire with vulgarity 367

Repugnances to be overcome, 87

Resisting power of adult brain, 162

Rest, necessary in intellectual labor, 454

Resting, the art of, 455

Restoration of French monarchy, 94

Restraints of money, 238

Retreats demanded by intellectual life, 221

Return to barbarism, 356

Rich man a director of work, 219
-- social diversions of, 220
-- vulgar people, 242

Road to success, commonly gradual increase, 226

Roman Catholic, belief of, 272

Romans, education of, 118

Roscoe, William, Italian studies, 134

Rosse, Lord, colossal telescope, 220
-- useful application of wealth, 220

Rossini, advice to young composer, 195

Ruskin, Mr., value of artistic perception, 62
-- extract from _Modern Painters_, 215
-- wealth of material, 229
-- career of, 229

Sacerdotal system, 270

Sadness of intellectual workers, 426

Sainte Beuve, example of self-discipline, 83
-- system of living, 236
-- atheist and scientist, 279
-- quoted, 458

Saint-Bernard at Lake Leman, 547

Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy, in blindness, 57

Saint-Hilaire, Geoffrey, at Alexandria, 540

Sand, George, working under pressure, 23
-- quoted, 86
-- novel of "Valvedre," 319

Satisfactions of intellectual riches, 424

Schiller, literary hack-work of, 233

Schoolmaster, thankless office of, 337

Science, methods and laws of, 283
-- requires heat and heroism, 276
-- of living, 395

Scientific cookery, importance of, 35
-- writers and thinkers, independence, 258