tion of Natural Society, The_, Burke, vii, 168.

_Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A_, Mary Wollstonecraft, ii, 290.

Virginia controversy, the, iii, 267.

_Virginians, The_, Thackeray, i, 236.

Vital statistics, v, 96.

Vivakenandi, H. Darmapala, viii, 27.

_Vivian Gray_, Disraeli, v, 324.

Voice, the inner, x, 31;
the prophetic, i, 181.

Voltaire, ii, 183; xii, 57; 179;
at the English Court, viii, 296;
financial ability of, viii, 298;
home of, in Switzerland, viii, 314;
as a pamphleteer, viii, 317;
his contempt for the clergy, viii, 280;
imprisonment of, viii, 285;
death of, viii, 276;
influence of, viii, 275;
_Life of Charles XII_, viii, 297;
_My Private Life_, viii, 312;
_Henriade_, viii, 296;
_Oedipe_, viii, 287;
_Philosophical Dictionary_, xi, 106;
Frederick the Great and, viii, 309;
Thomson and, viii, 296;
the Abbe de Chateauneuf and, viii, 278;
the Chevalier de Rohan and, viii, 292;
Congreve and, viii, 295;
Horace Walpole and, viii, 296;
Pope and, viii, 295;
Catherine of Russia and, viii, 315;
Madame du Chatelet and, viii, 301;
Dean Swift and, viii, 295;
John Gay and, viii, 295;
Madame Dunoyer and, viii, 282;
Ninon de Lenclos and, viii, 277;
on marriage and divorce, viii, 290;
on Newton, x, 366; xii, 409;
on Shakespeare, i, 134;
on Seneca, viii, 80;
on superstition, viii, 293;
quoted, xiii, 162;
referred to, i, 306;
Charles Dickens compared with, viii, 283;
Rousseau's criticism of, ix, 384;
Disraeli compared with, viii, 295;
Rousseau compared with, vii, 207; ix, 373, 385.

Von Humboldt, Alexander, i, 342;
education of, x, 257.

_Wagner at Bayreuth_, Nietzsche, xiv, 36.

Wagner, Parson, ix, 393.

Wagner, Richard, mother of, xiv, 14;
marriage of, xiv, 16;
composition of his music, xiv, 24;
exile of, xiv, 31;
character of, xiv, 42;
referred to, v, 267;
on art, xiv, 22;
on Beethoven, xiv, 222;
influence of, viii, 205;
Franz Liszt and, xiv, 30;
Millet compared with, iv, 259;
William Morris compared with, xiv, 24;
Friedrich Nietzsche and, xiv, 35;
Whitman compared with, xiv, 23.

Walden Pond, Thoreau's home at, viii, 413.

Waldorf-Astoria, i, p xxxvii.

Walker, Emery, and William Morris v, 29.

Wallace, Alfred Russel, referred to, v, 289;
Darwin and, xii, 223, 372;
Humboldt compared with, xii, 380;
on the orang-utan, xii, 382;
on spiritism, xii, 392;