INFLUENCE of authors, 267-270; 273-277.

INTELLECTUAL nobility, 250.

IMITATION in literature, 305-307.

IRRITABILITY of genius, 70, 86-88.

ISOCRATES' belief in native character, 32.

JAMES I., a critical disquisition on the character of, 385-455.

JULIAN, Emperor, anecdotes of, 97.

JEALOUSY in art and literature, 154-159;
of honours paid to literary men, 251.

JOHNSON, Dr., defines the literary character, 12;
his moral dignity, 192;
his metaphysical loves, 200;
anecdotes of him and Goldsmith, 294.

JUVENILE WORKS, their value, 67.

LABOUR endured by great authors, 75;
a pleasure to some minds, 176-177.

LETTERS in the vernacular idiom, 375-379.

LINNAEUS sensitive to ridicule, 75;
honours awarded to, 191.

LITERARY FRIENDSHIP, 209-217.

LITERATURE an avenue to glory, 248.

LOCKE'S simile of the human mind, 25.

MANNERISTS in literature, 293.

MARCO Polo ridiculed unjustly, _n._ 79.

MATRIMONIAL STATE in literature and art, 198-208.

MAZZUCHELLI a great literary historian, 352.

MEDITATION, value of, 129.

MEMORY, as an art, 120, 122.

MENDELSSOHN, Moses, his remarkable history, 61-64.

MEN of LETTERS, their definition, 226-238.

METASTASIO a bad sportsman, 38;
his susceptibility, 140.

MILTON, his high idea of the literary character, 12;
his theory of genius, 25;
his love of study, 135;
sacrifices sight to poetry, 152.

MISCELLANISTS and their works, 282-286.

MODES OF STUDY used by great men, 125.

MOLIERE, his dramatic career, 310-325.

MONTAIGNE, his personal traits, 223.

MORE, Dr., on enthusiasm of genius, 149.

MORERI devotes a life to literature, 152.

MORTIMER the artist, his athletic exercises, 39.

MURATORI, his literary industry, 351.

NATIONAL tastes in literature, 260.

NECESSITY, its influence on literature, 193-194.

OBSCURE BIRTHS of great men, 248-249.

OLD AGE of literary men, 238-244.

PECULIAR habits of authors, 119-120.

PEIRESC, his early bias toward literature, 234;
his studious career, 235.

PERSONAL CHARACTER differs from the literary one, 217-226.

PETRARCH'S remarkable conversation on his melancholy, 68;
his mode of life, 114.

POPE, his anxiety over his Homer, 81;
severity of his early studies, 147.

POUSSIN fears trading in art, 193.

POVERTY of literary men, 186;
sometimes a choice, 188-190.

PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE of life wanting in studious men, 183-185.

PRAYERS of great men, 146.