, anecdote of, ii. 10, 11.

LOUIS the Twelfth, cause of his death, ii. 34.

LOUIS the Fourteenth, chose his courtiers by the rules of
physiognomy, i. 148; some remarks on his real character, ii, 449;
passages suppressed in his instruction to the Dauphin, 450.

LOUIS L'ABE, the Aspasia of Lyons, i. 362; wrote the morality of
"Love and Folly," ib.

LOUPS-GAROUX, iii. 293.

LUCULLUS, description of the library of, i. 3.

LUKE, Sir Samuel, the true prototype of Hudibras, ii. 491, and note.

LUNSFORD, Colonel, imputed a cannibal, iii. 149, note.

LUTHER, Martin, remarks on, and extracts from, his controversial
writings, i. 308, 309; caricatures on, 309, note; Jansenist
character of, 374; anecdote of, from Guicciardini, ii. 479, 480; his
political conduct, iii. 144.

LUYNES, Duc de, his origin, ii. 11.

LUXURY, in dress, an old dramatist's opinion on, iii. 400; doctrines
of political economy concerning, 401; excessive amongst our
ancestors, ib.; the Pas de Sandricourt, 402-405; ruinous in the
reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 405.

MABBE, James, translator of "Guzman" and "Celestina," Spanish plays,
ii. 501; Ben Jonson's verses in praise of, ib.

MACHIAVEL discovered the secret of comparative history, iii. 179.

MACKENZIE, Sir George, notice of his Treatise on Solitude, ii. 50.

MAD-SONG, specimen of an ancient, ii. 315.

MAGIC, instances of many learned men accused of, i. 27-29; Solomon
accounted an adept in, 122.

MAGIUS, Charles, a noble Venetian, iii. 136; his travels and
adventures contained in a volume of paintings, ib.; detailed
description of, 137-141.

MAGLIABECHI, Anthony, celebrated for his great knowledge of books,
i. 394; description of him and his mode of life, 394-397.

MAII, the discoverer of Cicero's treatise _de Republica_, i. 18, and
note.

MAILLARD, Oliver, a famous cordelier and preacher, i. 252.

MAINE, Duc de, instituted the Journal de Trevoux, iii. 230; and the
Dictionary of Trevoux, ib.

MAINTENON, Madame de, marries Scarron, i. 424; corrects his style,
ib.

MALHERBE, his love of Horace, iii. 340.

MALIGNANTS, iii. 86.

MAN of one book, iii. 337-340.

MANDRAKE, i. 246.

MANNERS, anecdotes of European, ii. 30-39; domestic, among the
English, 42-44.

MANUSCRIPTS, more valued by the Romans than vases of gold, i. 2; two
thousa