ersations_ of, iv, 140;
his masterpiece, iv, 142;
death of, iv, 141;
Fortuny compared with, iv, 218;
friend of Millet, iv, 282;
genius of, iv, 329;
other self of, v, 106;
pictures by, owned in America, iv, 142;
quoted, iv, 218, 330.

Melancholy, v, 268;
humor and, v, 156.

Melania, the Nun of Tagaste, vi, 62.

Melchizedek, the order of, ix, 70.

Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini, vi, 273.

_Memories_, Max Muller, vi, 40.

Mendelssohn, Felix, ix, 285;
boyhood of, xiv, 164;
Mozart compared with, ix, 163;
Queen Victoria and, xiv, 181;
Thorwaldsen and, vi, 116.

Mendelssohn, Moses, on the Ghetto, viii, 223.

Men, grown-up children, vii, 350.

Mengs, Raphael, on Velasquez, vi, 158.

Mennonite, the, ii, 189.

Mennonites, the, Napoleon and, viii, 212;
Spinoza and, viii, 211.

Men of genius, i, 75.

Mentation, art of, viii, 355.

Mephisto, iii, 233;
Disraeli compared with, v, 320.

Mephistopheles, referred to, v, 132.

Merchandising, old-time methods of, ix, 131.

Merchant, age of the, xi, 306.

_Merchant of Venice, The_, Shakespeare, i, 317.

Meredith, George, ii, 127.

_Merlin_, Tennyson, v, 68.

_Message to Garcia_, how written, i, p xxix.

Messalina, Valeria, wife of Claudius, viii, 62.

_Messiah_, Handel, xiv, 269.

Messianic instinct, the, v, 109.

Metaphysics, x, 344;
Kant on, viii, 148.

_Metaphysics of Love_, Schopenhauer, viii, 382.

Metaphysics, science and theology distinguished from, viii, 267.

Methodism, ix, 279;
Lecky on, ix, 49;
Moravianism and, ix, 32.

Methodists, ii, 227;
origin of name, ix, 25.

Michallon, Achille, companion of Corot, vi, 198.

Michelangelo, i, 131; iv, 90; xii, 84;
age of, iv, 6; ix, 94;
birth of, iv, 7;
influence of, upon Leonardo, iv, 7;
appearance of, iv, 7;
manner of living, iv, 7;
compared with Leonardo, iv, 8;
his figures of women, iv, 9;
beginning of his artistic work, iv, 9;
his parents, iv, 10;
his apprenticeship, iv, 13;
his patron, Lorenzo, iv, 13;
life of, in Florence, iv, 15;
arrival in Bologna, iv, 16;
life of, in Rome, iv, 18;
his work in Florence, iv, 22;
the Sistine Chapel, iv, 28;
the Church of San Lorenzo, iv, 31;
chief architect of Saint Peter's, iv, 34;
death of, iv, 35;
sonnets of, iv, 36;
America's tribute to, iv, 35;
Sebastian Bach compared with, xiv, 137;
Cellini and, vi, 281;
Landseer compared with, iv, 326;
Leonar