Commonwealth of England. _See_ Cromwell.

Comte, Auguste, influence, 73.

Conciseness in history, 11, 14, 16, 20, 36.

Congress, control of Senate over Pierce and Buchanan, 213;
power during Johnson's administration, 216;
overshadows President, power of Speaker of House, 227;
McKinley's control over, 234;
contact with President, 237;
and Hayes, 249, 256, 257, 261.

Conkling, Roscoe, contest with Hayes over New York Custom-house, 255.

Constitution. _See_ Federal Constitution.

Copyright, _The Nation_ and international, 282.

Cornell, A. B., removal by Hayes, 255.

Corruption, Gibbon on, 127.

Cox, J. D., on Gardiner, 44, 323;
essay on, 185-188;
varied activities, 185;
as general, 185;
as governor, 185;
and negro suffrage, 186;
as cabinet officer, 186;
and civil service reform, 186;
in Congress, 186;
and Spanish Mission, 186;
private positions, 187;
works, as military historian, 187;
and Grant, 187;
contributions to _The Nation_, 187;
as reader, 187;
character, 188;
on Godkin, 295;
on burning of Columbia, 303.

Crimean War, Godkin on, 273.

Cromer, Lord, on power of press, 89, 96.

Cromwell, Oliver, Carlyle's biography, 144, 150;
Gardiner's influence on fame, 150;
Gardiner's estimate, 317-323;
character, 319;
character of army, 319, 320;
foreign policy, 321;
lack of constructive statesmanship, 321;
as typical Englishman, 322;
and Revolution of 1688, 322, 323.

Curchod, Suzanne, and Gibbon, 136.

Curtis, G. W., on _The Nation_, 270.

Curtius, Ernst, as historian, 34, 43.

Dana, C. A., as journalist, historical value of articles, 31, 90.

Darwin, C. R., biography, 59;
truthfulness, 145.

Dates in historical work, importance of newspapers, 87.

Democratic party, and Cleveland's administration, 223, 226.

Demosthenes, and Thucydides, 15.

Desultory reading in training of historian, 64, 65, 199.

Devens, Charles, in Hayes's cabinet, 247.

Deyverdun, Georges, collaboration with Gibbon, 124.

Dicey, A. V., as contributor to _The Nation_, 282, 294.

Dictionaries, importance of quotations in, 55.

Dingley Tariff Act, 229.

Duff, Sir M. E. Grant, on Herodotus, 5.

Eckermann, J. P., "Conversations with Goethe," 70-72.

Elections, 1852, Whig nominations, Scott's stumping tour, 86, 87;
1856, K