al Biography,' 43, 54;
relations with Sir Henry Taylor, 43;
duties and influence at the Colonial Office, 44-46;
gluttony for work, 45, 50;
nicknames, 46;
interest in the suppression of slavery, 46, 48;
appointed Assistant Under-Secretary, 48;
resigns Board of Trade, 49;
share in the establishment of responsible government in Canada, 49;
sensitive and shy in disposition, 51, 52;
tenacity of opinion, 52;
perfection and richness of his conversational diction, 52-54;
character of his essays and letters, 54, 55;
religious creed and sympathies, 55-59;
distinguished acquaintances and friends, 59, 60;
distaste for general society and feasts, 60, 61;
his ascetic temperament and systematic abstemiousness, 61;
delight in family meetings, 61;
evangelical character of his household, 61-63;
as a father, 63, 64;
physical and personal characteristics, 64;
family, 65;
talks with Fitzjames, 69, 75, 76, 82, 84, 89;
concern for Fitzjames's health, 74-76;
places his sons at Eton, 77, 78;
anxiety concerning his son Herbert, 84;
letter to Fitzjames, 85;
effect of Herbert's death on, 88;
illness and resignation of his post, 89;
made a Privy Councillor and created K.C.B., 89;
Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 89;
delivery, reception and publication of his lectures, 89, 90;
accepts professorship at Haileybury, 91;
desires a clerical career for Fitzjames, 113, 118;
and Fitzjames's views on theology, 124, 127, 128;
Sir James satirised in 'Little Dorrit,' 159;
his criticisms of Fitzjames's literary work, 162, 163;
on the slavery of a journalistic career, 163, 164;
suggestions to Fitzjames for a legal history, 164, 414;
last days and death, 169, 170;
inscription on his tombstone, 170

Stephen, Lady, birth, 36_n_;
marriage, 33;
personal characteristics, 39, 40;
love of the poets, 40;
devotion to her husband and children, 40;
serenity of disposition, 40, 41;
religious convictions, 41;
her reminiscences of Switzerland, 42;
her diary, 66, 67;
Sir F. J. Stephen's letters to, from India, 238, 291-296;
last years and death, 300, 301

Stephen, Sir James Fitzjames--_Family History_: James Stephen
(great-grandfather), 1-8;
Master James Stephen (grandfather) and h