frequently unjust, 75.

CONVERSATIONS of men of genius, 99-109;
those who converse well seldom write well, 104.

COTIN, Abbe, troubled by wealth, 188.

CRACHERODE, Rev. C.M., his collections of art and literature, _n._, 13.

CRITICISM not always just, 65-75.

CURRIE, his idea of the power of genius, 26.

CUVIER'S discoveries in natural history, 145.

DANTE, his great abstraction of mind, 134.

DEATHS of literary men, 243.

DEPRECIATION, theory of, 160.

DIARIES, their value, 122.

DISEASE induced by severe study, 147.

DOMENICHINO poisoned by rivals, 158.

DOMESTIC Novelties at first condemned, 355-364.

DOMESTIC life of literary men, 173-186.

DREAMS of eminent men, 127-128.

DROUAIS an enthusiastic painter, 153.

ENGLAND and its tastes, 264.

FAMILY affection an incentive to genius, 179-182.

FENELON'S early enthusiasm for Greece, 151.

FIRST STUDIES of great men, 55-59;
first thoughts for great works, 129-133.

FORKS, when first used, 356.

FRANKLIN, Dr., notes the calming of the sea, 133;
his influence on American manners, 272.

FUSELI'S imaginative power, 151.

GALILEO invents the pendulum, 132.

GALVANISM first discovered, 133.

GESNER recommends a study of literature to artists, 22;
on enthusiasm, 154;
his wife a model for those of literary men, 206-208.

GLEIM and his portrait gallery, 211.

GOLDSMITH contrasted with Johnson, 294.

GOLDONI overworks his mind, 147.

GOVERNMENT of the thoughts, 117.

GRAY'S excitement in composing verse, 141;

GUIBERT, his great work on military tactics, 265.

HABITUAL PURSUITS, their power over the mind, 302-304.

HALLUCINATIONS of genius, 148;
realities with some minds, 150.

HAYDN, his regulation of his time, 92.

HELMONT'S (Van) love of study, 152.

HERBERT of Cherbury, Lord, questions the Deity as to the publication of
his book, 148.

HOBBES, theory to explain his terror, 150.

HOGARTH, attacks on, _n._ 87.

HOLLIS, his miserable celibacy, 201.

HONOURS awarded literary men, 249-258.

HORNE (Bishop), his love of literary labour, 135.

HUME the historian, his irritability, 86;
unfitted for gay life, 99;
gives his reason for literary labour, _n._ 177;
endeavours to correct Robertson, 342.

HUNTER, Dr., fraternal jealousy, 156.

HYPOCHONDRIA, its cause and effect, 150.

IDEALITY defined, 137;
its power, 138-154.

INCOMPLETED books, 350-355.

INDUSTRY of great writers, 125.