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Acceleration, law, 489.
Adams, Abigail, 353; on Catherine Johnson,
17.
Adams, Abigail Brown (Brooks), 23; on
English influence, 211.
Adams, Brooks, 360, 464; at Harvard College,
299; on exchanges, 338.
Adams, Charles Francis, 48, 149; taken
to Russia, 18; in Boston, 19; marriage,
and children, 23; and State Street, 24;
nominated Vice-President, 25; slave
power, 26; opinion of sons, 26; isolation,
27; political party, 29; reading, 35; family,
36; senatorship agreement, 49; on
Europe, 70; in Congress, 88, 101; compared
with Seward, 104; minister to
England, 110; equipment, 112; impassiveness,
115; social position, 16, 132,
194, 212; Trent affair, 119; trusts Russell,
136, 149; clash with Palmerston,
136; rebel cruisers, 150, 167; interview
with Russell, 158; rebel rams, 168;
strength of, 208; proposed return to
America, 209; collects coins, 213; liking
for Washington, 269.
Adams, Charles Francis (1835–1915), 23,
41, 89, 120; at Fort Independence, 112;
remonstrates, 129; after the war, 210,
241; railroad studies, 240, 307; gold conspiracy,
270; favors professorship, 293.
Adams, Evelyn (Davis), 442.
Adams, Henry [Brooks], birth, 3, 23; early
experiences, 5; encounter with J. Q.
Adams, 12; early education, 26; political
associations, 29; reading, 36; family
atmosphere, 36; dislike of school, 37;
visits Washington, 43; impressions, 44;
election of Sumner to Senate, 50; student
at Harvard College, 55; goes to
Germany, 62, 70; college writings, 66;
class orator, 66; German gymnasium,
77; musical awakening, 80; at Dresden,
82, 87; in Italy, 85, 88, 208, 235; letters
from Italy, 89; at Rome, 90; meets
Garibaldi, 94; at Paris, 96; at Washington,
1860, 99, 243; Sumner's break, 108;
accompanies father to England, 110;
position, 112, 116; newspaper work, 120;
proposes to enter army, 129; at Cambridge
House, 134; at Fryston, 138;
Seward's offer, 145; on Russell, 163,
174; Palmerston, 164; Gladstone, 164;
Seward, 174; London society, 195; choice
of career, 210; writer, 211, 222, 234; art,
213; buys a Rafael, 216; Darwinism,
224; reviews Lyell, 226; on currency,
233; returns to America, 237; legal tender
cases, 250, 277; Sumner's relations,
251; Edinburgh Review, 258; gold conspiracy,
270; in London, 284, 316; Harvard
professorship, 291, 299; editor
North American Review, 293, 296, 307;
first visit to Harvard College, 299; without
office, 322; "History," 325, 327;
Paris, 360; "Mont-Saint-Michel and
Chartres," 435.
Adams, John, 9, 47, 99, 112, 372;" Works,"
31.
Adams, John Quincy, 10, 46, 103, 112;
overcomes H. Adams, 12; hobbies, 14;
at church, 15; marriage, 17; diplomatic
positions, 17; death, 20; restlessness,
28; Russell's resemblance, 167; Secretary
of State, 393; in Russia, 438.
Adams, John Quincy (1833–1894), 23;
popularity, 35, 241.
Adams, Louisa Catherine, 23; brightness
of, 35. See Louisa C. A. Kuhn.
Adams, Louisa Catherine (Johnson), 10;
described, 16; marriage, 17; wanderings,
17; stricken, 43.
Adams Building, Washington, 44.
Agassiz, Alexander, 55, 235, 307, 308, 346.
Agassiz, Louis, 60, 227, 307.
"Alabama," the, 150, 152, 153, 167;
claims, 285.
Alaric, sacks Rome, 480.
Albert Francis Charles Augustus Emmanuel,
Prince consort, death of, 119.
Alexander I, czar, 112, 438.
Alexander II, czar, 439.
Alexeieff, Viceroy, 462.

510

Alley, John B., politics in 1850, 49, 50.
America, character of man, 297; money in,
328.
Amiens cathedral, 386, 435.
Anarchism, Brooks Adams on, 339; conservative
Christian, 405.
Anderson, Nicholas Longworth, 57.
Antietam, battle of, 154.
Antwerp, 74.
Apponyi, Rodolph, Comte d', Austrian
ambassador, 135.
Apthorp, Robert East, 76, 80.
Aquinas, Thomas, 389, 428, 435, 456.
Argyll, Duke of. See Campbell.
Aristocracy, English, 72.
Arnold, Jane Martha, 125.
Arnold. Matthew, 61, 108, 192, 201, 388,
469; ridicule, 182; on silence, 358.
Arnold, Thomas, 125.
Ashley, Evelyn, 144.
Atkinson, Edward, 242.
Augustin of Hippo, 480.
Aurelian [Lucius Domitius], 91.
Austen, Jane, 421.
Austria, war with France, 83, 84.
Azeglio, Emmanuel Vittorio Tapparelli d',
Italian minister, 135.
Bacon, Francis, 379, 451, 457, 484, 485,
491.
Badeau, Adam, character of, 263.
Baireuth, visited, 404.
Balfour, Arthur James, 457, 460, 476.
Balzac, Honoré de, 61.
Bancroft, George, 317, 320.
Bancroft, John Chandler, 82.
Banks in crisis of 1893, 337.
Baring, Thomas, 122.
Barlow, Francis Channing, 210, 248.
Baron Osy, 73.
Barry, Marie Jeanne Gomard de Vaubernier,
Comtesse du, 391.
Bartlett, William Francis, 210, 248.
Bates, Joshua, 121.
Baxter, Sarah, Ethel Newcome, 131.
Bayard, Thomas Francis, 331.
Beaumoat, Lady Margaret, on foreigners,
196.
Bebel, Ferdinand August, 423.
Beesly, Edward Spencer, 189.
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 80, 81, 82, 85.
Begonia, nature of, 292.
Bennett, James Gordon, 244.
Benton, Thomas Hart, 102.
Berlin, in 1858, 74, 77; university of, 75;
gymnasium, 77.
Besnard, Paul Albert, 391.
Bethell, Richard, Lord Westbury, 148,
149; rebel cruisers, 151; foreign enlistment
act, 176.
Bille, Torben van, Danish minister, 135.
Birmingham, England, 72.
Bismarck, Otto Eduard Leopold von, 78,
289.
Blaine, James Gillespie, 261, 280, 281,
321, 331, 394.
Boer War, 370, 464.
Boerhaave, Hermann, 491.
Borthwick,—, 135.
Boston, Mass., social tone, 19; want of
healthy resources, 38; women, 40; blackguard,
41; Latin School, 41; mobs, 42;
on English eccentricity, 181; simplicity,
241, 269.
Boston Courier, Adams writes for, 89, 94.
Boston Whig, 32.
Boutwell, George Sewall, 281, 298; governor,
49; secretary of the treasury, 263,
267; gold conspiracy, 271; voluntary isolation,
273; Hay on, 326.
Bowen, Francis, 72.
Bowles, Samuel, 255.
Brahe, Tycho, 492.
Branly, Edouard, 381.
Bravay, et Cie., rebel rams, 178.
Brice, Calvin Stewart, 320, 331, 343.
Bright, John, 125, 133, 183; attacks Roebuck,
187; power of attack, 188; courage
and poise, 190; on criminal sentences,
191; in cabinet, 284.
Brooke, Stopford Augustus, 215, 22O.
Brook Farm, 27.
Brooks, Abigail Brown, 23.
Brooks, Ann, 23.
Brooks, Chardon, 23.
Brooks, Charlotte, 23.
Brooks, Edward, 23.
Brooks, Gorham, 23.
Brooks, Peter Chardon, 10; death, 23.
Brooks, Peter Chardon, Jr., 23.
Brooks, Phillips, 55, 235, 315.
Brooks, Preston Smith, assault on Sumner,
76.
Brooks, Sydney, 23, 94.
Brougham, Henry, Lord, 124, 193, 197;
audacity, 184.

511

Browning, Robert, 201; and the guillotine,
92.
Brunnow, Baron, Russian ambassador,
135; on Palmerston, 133.
Bruno, Giordano, 484.
Bryant, William Cullen, 244.
Bryce, James, Viscount, 304.
Buckle, Henry Thomas, 221, 301, 434.
Bull Run, battle of, 118, 129, 152.
Bunyan, John, 483.
Burlingame, Anson, 49, 101.
Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 341.
Burr, Aaron, 394.
Butler, Benjamin Franklin, New Orleans
order, 136.
Buxton, Fowell, 184.
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 358.
Cacciatori, Garibaldi's, 86.
Calhoun, John Caldwell, 45, 394.
Calvin, John, 483.
Cambridge, Mass., social, 307.
Cambridge House (Palmerston's), importance
of, 134.
Camden & Amboy R.R., 43,
Cameron, James Donald, 332, 343, 385,
426; type, 333; retires, 356; at Surrenden
Dering, 364.
Cameron, Elizabeth (Sherman) 332.
Campbell, Lady Elizabeth Leveson-Gower,
Duchess of Argyll, 126.
Campbell, George Douglas, Duke of
Argyll, 141; friendly to America, 126;
faith in Russell, 151, 153.
Campbell, John, Lord, 197.
Canada, troops in, 153; Sumner and cession,
275.
Canning, George, 174, 206.
Caracciolo, Prince, 94.
Carlyle, Thomas, 61, 83, 192, 193, 201,
221; Boston and, 33; jibes of, 131; on
silence, 358.
Cassini, Comte, Russian policy, 375, 393,
437, 439, 463, 465.
Castiglione, Mme. de, 198.
Cavendish, Lord Frederick, 127.
Cavour, Camillo Benso, 92, 95.
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne,
Marquis of Salisbury, 148, 235, 258.
Cellini, Benvenuto, 387.
Chamberlain, Joseph, 372, 464.
Chamberlain, Miss, 464.
Chandler, Joseph Ripley, 94.
Channing, William Ellery, 27.
Charles I, 72,
Chartres, 371, 388, 427.
Chase, Salmon Portland, 282; legal tender
cases, 250, 278; and Hoar, 277.
Chester, England, 72, 236.
Chicago exposition, 1893, 339.
Child, Francis James, 307.
China, struggle for control, 391, 436.
Civilization, failure of, 477.
Clay, Cassius Marcellus, minister to Russia,
113.
Clay, Henry, 5, 45, 102.
Cleveland, Grover, 324, 331, 373; Brice
on, 320; Cuba, 349.
Clinton, Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham,
Duke of Newcastle, on recognizing confederacy,
154, 160; rebel rams, 178.
Cobden, Richard, 125, 133, 183, 191.
Cockran, William Bourke, 331.
Coffin's Point, S.C., 332.
Collier, Robert Porrett, Lord Monkswell,
on foreign enlistment act, 150, 167.
Columbus, Christopher, 383, 483, 492.
Compass, the, 482.
Comte, Auguste, 60, 225, 301, 434, 479,
493.
Concord, Mass., philosophy, 27; and
the Adamses, 62.
Congressmen, 262.
Conkling, Roscoe, 46, 102, 252, 261, 279,
281, 394.
Constantine, the Great, 484; sets up the
cross, 383, 478.
Cooper, Antony Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury,
184.
Copernicus, Nicolaus, 383, 492.
Copley, John Singleton, Lord Lyndhurst,
197.
Country and town, New England, 7.
Coutances, fête dieu in, 468.
Coutts, Miss Burdett, 118, 197.
Cox, Jacob Dolson, 271, 277, 282; secretary
of the interior, 263, 267.
Cox, Samuel Sullivan, 282.
Crisis of 1893, 337.
Croll, James, 400.
Crookes, Sir William, 450, 452.
Cross, influence of, 383, 478; defence of,
480.
Crowninshield, Benjamin William, 82.
Cruisers, rebel, 150.
Cuba, visited, 349.

512

Cunliffe, Sir Robert, 190.
Curie, Madame de, 397, 450, 452.
Curtis, Benjamin Robbins, 249.
Cushing, Caleb, on Sumner, 50.
Dalton, John, 491.
Dana, Charles Anderson, 244.
Dana, Richard Henry, 35; character, 29.
Daniels, Conky, 42.
Darwin, Charles, 201, 284, 400, 452; effect-of,
224.
Davis, Henry Winter, 101.
Davis, Jefferson, to make a nation, 114;
Gladstone's recognition, 156, 163, 165;
diplomatic agents, 184.
Davis, John Chandler Bancroft, 275.
Degrand, Peter Paul Francis, 20.
Delane, John Thaddeus, 121, 125, 135; at
Milnes's, 170.
Dennett, John Richard, 299.
Descartes, René, 389, 484, 491, 495.
Dewey, George, 257.
Dickens, Charles, 35, 61, 201, 421; England
of, 72; exaggeration, 181; satires,
182.
Diocletian, Emperor, 477.
Diplomats, complaints of young, 256.
Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield,
148, 163, 164, 192, 194, 235, 284.
Dixwell, Epes Sargent, school, 54.
Dohna, Samuel, 255.
Doyle, Sir Francis Hastings Charles, 190,
206.
Dresden, 82, 87.
Dudley, Thomas Haines, consul, rebel
cruisers, 129.
Dumas, Alexandre, 94, 392.
Dupont, Samuel Francis, 112.
Dürer, Albert, 492.
Dynamo, the, 342, 380.
Eaton Hall, 72, 236.
Eccentricity, British, 181.
Eddy, Spencer (Fayette), 360.
Edinburgh Review, 192, 258, 282, 286.
Education, state, 78.
Egypt, visited, 360.
Eliot, Charles William, 300, 304; offer of
assistant professorship, 291, 293; commends,
305.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 27, 61, 141; protest,
35.
Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 309.
Engrand le Prince, 471.
Ennui, 427.
Erie railroad, 270, 282, 286.
Estes Park, 310.
Europe, influence on youth, 70.
Evarts, William Maxwell, 149, 271, 373;
on success, 29; in London, 148, 197; at
Cambridge, 204; in Washington, 244,
253; legal tender cases, 249.
Everett, Charlotte (Brooks), 23, 299.
Everett, Edward, 27, 29, 204, 299, 317;
eulogy on J. Q. Adams, 21; career, 23;
succeeds Webster, 32.
Everett, William, at Cambridge, 204.
Evolution, 91.
Exposition, Chicago, 1893, 339; Paris,
1900, 379.
Faraday, Michael, 397, 426.
Felton, Cornelius Conway, 64.
Fish, Hamilton, 271, 282, 294; secretary of
state, 263; kindness of, 266; Sumner
and, 274.
Fisk, James, 270, 286, 297.
Fiske, John, 299, 307; on H. Adams, 305.
Forain, Jean Louis, 193.
Forces, development and economy, 379;
lines of, 396, 426.
Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 351.
Forster, Jane Martha (Arnold), 125.
Forster, William Edward, 119, 123, 183,
284; described, 125; faith in Russell,
153; education bill, 285.
France, position in 1858, 83; war with
Germany, 286, 290; churches of, 369;
science in, 454.
Franklin, Benjamin, 47, 333, 485, 486, 491.
Free Soil Party, 29, 30, 49.
Frewen, Moreton, 343.
Friedrich Wilhelm IV, of Prussia, 78.
Frothingham, Ann (Brooks), 23.
Frothingham, Nathaniel Langdon, 23,
27; position, 24.
Frothingham, Octavius Brooks, scepticism
of, 35.
Froude, James Anthony, 201, 221.
Fryston, Yorkshire, C. F. Adams at, 119;
H. Adams, 138.
Fulton, Robert, 486.
Fust, Johann, 483.
Galileo Galilei, 383, 457, 484, 491, 495,
Gallatin, Albert, 333.

513

Ganoid, fish. See Pteraspis.
Garfield, James Abram, 261, 280, 281, 324.
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 86, 91, 92, 367;
Adams and, 93; at Palermo, 94; in London,
198; Grant and, 265.
Garrison, William Lloyd, 29, 42, 51.
Gaskell, Charles Milnes, 235; meeting
with, 204.
Gaskell, James Milnes, 204, 284, 291, 318;
described, 206; Mrs. 206, 284.
Geikie, Archibald, 400.
George III, 372.
Germany, education in, 61, 75; in 1858,
82; war with France, 285, 290; imposed
on students, 304; a terror to Great Britain,
363; position of, 424, 437; science,
453.
Gettysburg, battle of, 169.
Gibbon, Edward, 301, 367, 434; "Decline
and Fall," 91; on cathedrals, 386.
Gibbs, Josiah Willard, 377, 449.
Giles, William Branch, 394.
Gladstone, William Ewart, 149, 182, 192,
202, 206, 262, 284, 289; on confederacy,
115; honesty of, 153; recognizing confederacy,
154, 174; Newcastle speech,
155, 176; rejoinder to Lewis, 161; confession
of blunder, 165; Oxford training,
167; on politicians, 179; laughs at Dundreary,
181; uncertainty, 183.
Glass, in churches of France, 470.
Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 102, 244, 276,
280, 336.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 62, 81, 82.
Gold conspiracy of 1869, 269, 282, 286,
292.
Gorham, Nathaniel, 46.
Gould, Jay, 238, 281, 286, 297; gold conspiracy,
269.
Gracchus, Tiberius, 91.
Grant, Ulysses Simpson, 255, 280, 297,
298, 356, 385; president, 260; cabinet,
262; gold conspiracy, 271; foreign policy,
275; a quarrel with, 276; dislike of
Motley, 276; failure of administration,
281, 294.
Granville. See Leveson-Gower.
Gray, Horace, 109.
Gray, Thomas, 36.
Great Britain, recognizes belligerency of
confederacy, 114; prejudice, 122; intervention,
151; eccentricity, 180; royalty
in, 199; manners, 201; English mind,
212; art, 213, 220; historians, 221;
treaty relations, 423.
Greek fire, 483.
Greeley, Horace, 244.
Green, John Richard, on Palgrave, 215.
Grey, Sir George, 184; opposes recognition
of confederacy, 160.
Grosvenor, 72.
Grote, George, 201.
Grote, Harriet (Lewin), 192.
Guizot, François Pierre Guillaume, 33.
Gunpowder, 483.
Gurney, Ephraim Whitman, 293, 300, 307.
Gutenberg, Johann, 483, 492.
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich, 429, 453.
Hague, Arnold, 310.
Hallam, Arthur, 206.
Halstead, Murat, 255.
Hampton, Frank, 131.
Hampton, Sarah (Baxter), 131.
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo, 235; senator, 356.
Harrison, Benjamin, 320, 324, 331, 332, 373.
Harte, Francis Bret, 260, 315, 385.
Harvard College, education at, 54; class
of '58, 56; class day, 68; influence, 296;
history at, 300; value of degree, 305.
Harvey, Peter, 32, 49.
Harvey, William, 491.
Hay, Adelbert Stone, death of, 416.
Hay, Clara (Stone), 360, 366.
Hay, John, 64, 161, 235, 261, 315, 320, 327,
332, 347, 355, 373, 421; Adams meets,
106; in diplomatic service, 210; assistant
secretary of state, 317; republican,
321; Life of Lincoln, 322, 325; position
with party, 323; memory for faces, 325;
Ambassador, 356, 359; success, 362;
Secretary of State, 364, 422; troubles,
372; policy, 374; China, 392, 436; Japan-Russia
war, 465; at St. Louis, 465;
illness, 502; death, 504.
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 324, 464.
Hayward, Abraham, 125, 135, 201.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 8l, 406,
449, 451.
Heine, Heinrich, 76, 79.
Helmholz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand
von. 460.
Herald, New York, 244.
Herbert, Michael, 436, 443.
Hewitt, Abram Stevens, 322, 327, 373;
value of, 294.

514

Higginson, Henry Lee, 41, 210, 235.
Higginson, James Jackson, 82.
Hildreth, Richard, 104.
History, teaching of, 301; methods, 382,
395; dynamic theory of, 474.
Hitt, Reynolds, 426.
Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood, 257, 271, 282;
attorney general, 263, 267; difference
with Chase, 277; driven from office, 279.
Hoar, Samuel, 257, 268.
Hofer, Billy, 350.
Hogarth, William, 391.
Holland, Sir Henry, 131; breakfast, 204.
Holleben, Herr von, German policy, 375,
393; recalled, 437.
Holloway—, 217.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 27, 55, 141.
Hooper, Samuel, 253.
Horner, Mary, 127.
Horton, S. Dana, 334.
Houghton, Lord. See Milnes.
Howe, Timothy Otis, 292.
Howells, William Dean, 235.
Hughes, Thomas, 127.
Hugo, Victor Marie, test of, 142; anecdote,
143.
Hunt, Richard Morris, 315, 340, 341, 343,
386.
Hunt, William Holman, 214, 386.
Hunt, William Morris, 213, 315.
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 225.
Huygens, Christian, 491.
Iddings, Joseph Paxson, 350.
Inertia, force of, 440; sex, 441.
"Initials," the, by Baroness von Tautphœus,
87.
Intervention, British, in American Civil
War, 151.
Introspection, 432.
Iroquois, 94.
Irish, self obstruction, 393.
Italy, 84, 367; an emotion, 89.
Jackson, Andrew, 24, 28, 252.
James, George Payne Rainsford, 71.
James, Henry, 235, 315, 319; novels, 163,
James, William, 307.
Japan, Russia and, 462.
Jaurès, Jean Léon, 423.
Jefferson, Thomas,
Jenner, Edward, 486.
Jesse, tree of, 471.
Jocelyn, Lady Frances Elizabeth, 135.
Johnson, Andrew, president, 209, 261,
374; meeting with, 245.
Johnson, Catherine (Nuth), 16.
Johnson, Joshua, 16.
Johnson, Louisa Catherine, 16.
Johnson, Samuel, 36, 73.
Johnson, Thomas, 16.
Johnston, Humphreys, 370.
Joinville, Sieur de, 471, 483.
Jones, John Percival, 343.
Jowett, Benjamin, 201.
Judkins,—, 71.
Justinian, 482.
Kant, Immanuel, 62, 81, 449, 456, 498.
Kelvin, Lord. See William Thomson.
Kepler, Johann, 376, 484, 491.
Khilkoff, Prince, 439, 444.
King, Clarence, 64, 87, 315; on nature's
errors, 269; meeting with, 311; on manatoms,
319; republican, 321; head of
Survey Bureau, 322; near success, 328;
in 1893, 346; goes to Arizona, 395; death,
416.
King, Preston, 101.
Kinglake, Alexander William, 221.
Kipling, Rudyard, 260; "Mandalay," 316;
on steamship, 319.
Kropotkin, Prince Peter Alexeievitch, 407.
Kuhn, Charles, 85.
Kuhn, Louisa Catherine (Adams), 88;
Italian fervor, 85; death, 287.
La Farge, John, 64, 235, 315, 317, 341,
386; in South Seas, 316; expression, 370;
glass of, 371, 470.
La Fontaine, Jean de, on the wolf, 229.
Laird, William, and Son, rebel rams, 168;
connection with confederate agents, 186.
Lamar, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus, 279;
confederate agent to Russia, 185; on
English allies, 186; Bright and Roebuck,
187; on slavery, 246; on office, 322.
Lamsdorf,—, 438, 463.
Landor, Walter Savage, 142.
Langley, Samuel Pierpont, 385, 450; scientist,
377; Paris exposition, 379.
Laplace, Pierre Simon, 491.
Lee, Robert Edward, 57, 108, 266; invasion
of Maryland, 152; retreat, 154.
Lee, William Henry Fitzhugh ("Roony"),
at Harvard College, 57.

515

Legal tender cases, 249, 277.
Legitimacy and order, 113.
Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 484, 491,
495.
Leonardo da Vinci, 492.
Leveson-Gower, George Granville William
Sutherland, Duke of Sutherland, 118.
Leveson-Gower, Granville George, Earl
Granville, 149, 184, 202, 323; on recognizing
the confederacy, 154, 160.
Leveson-Gower, Harriet Elizabeth Georgiana,
Duchess of Sutherland, 118.
Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, 184; replies
to Gladstone, 157, 159; rejoinder, 161.
Libri, Guglielmo, 218.
Lies of diplomacy, 133.
Limulus, or horseshoe, 230.
Lincoln, Abraham, 98, 103, 121, 297; inauguration
message, 106; described,
107; English prejudice, 122, 136; a
nightmare, 130; emancipation proclamation,
155; reëlection, 208; assassination,
209.
Lindsay, William Schaw, connection with
confederate agents, 186.
Lodge, Anna Cabot Mills (Davis), 332,
353, 404, 442.
Lodge, Elizabeth (Davis), 403, 443.
Lodge, George Cabot (Bay), 403, 405, 443,
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 332, 343, 356, 421;
relations with, 353; goes to Russia, 406.
Lodge, John Ellerton, 31.
London, tone, 33; in 1858, 73; American
legation, 171; society, 194; in 1870, 284.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 27, 31, 141.
Louis XIV, 491.
Louis Philippe, taste, 195.
Lovejoy, Owen, 101.
Lowe, Robert, 202.
Lowell, James Russell, 83, 141, 307, 308;
"Biglow Papers," 35; influence, 61;
meets Bright, 190; on right and wrong,
259.
Lunt, George, 20.
Luther, Martin, 483.
Lyell, Sir Charles, 127, 309, 398, 400;
champions Darwin, 224.
Lyell, Mary (Horner), 127.
Lyndhurst. See Copley.
Lyons, Richard Bickerton Pemell, Earl
Lyons, 158.
Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer,
201.
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 33; method,
221.
McClellan, George Brinton, 137.
McCulloch, Hugh, 263; character, 247.
Mach, Ernst, 429, 453, 460.
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 85.
McKim, Charles Follen, 315.
McKinley, William, 235, 261, 355, 392;
policy, 373.
McKinleyism, 423.
McLennan, John Ferguson, 301.
McVeagh, Wayne, 327.
Madison, James, 47.
Maine, Sir Henry, 301, 368.
Maine, sinking of the, 360.
Mals, 87.
Manchuria, Russian designs on, 438, 462.
Mann, Horace, 35.
Manning, Henry Edward, cardinal-priest,
206.
Mansfield Street, Portland Place, 119.
Marconi, Guglielmo, 381.
Markoe, Francis, 101.
Marseillaise, singing by order, 290.
Marshall, John, 47.
Marvin, William Theophilus Rogers, 41.
Marx, Karl, 33, 60, 72, 225, 351, 379.
Maryland, in 1850, 44.
Mason, James Murray, 204, 394; seizure
on Trent, 119; agent of Confederacy,
184.
Massachusetts, senatorship in 1850, 49.
Maupassant, Guy de, 259.
Maurigy's Hotel, London, 116.
Maxwell, James Clerk, 452.
Mexico, visited, 350, 355.
Michael Angelo, 92, 93, 388, 492.
Milan, 85.
Miles, Nelson Appleton, 210.
Mill, John Stuart, 33, 72, 494; a talk with,
126; timidity of, 192.
Mills, Clark, 252.
Milman, Henry Hart, 201.
Milnes, Richard Monckton, Lord Houghton,
119, 123, 185, 195, 201, 206, 285;
described, 124; as host, 138; on Hugo,
143; joy over Gettysburg, 169; on Gladstone,
183; not an eccentric, 184.
Mind, American and British, 180; English,
193.
Mommsen, Theodor, 93.
Montaigne, Michel de, 389, 454, 485, 492.
Mont-Saint-Michel, 354.

516

Moran, Benjamin, assistant secretary of
legation, 111; secretary, 130, 145.
Morgan, Junius, 121.
Morgan, John Pierpont, 235, 347.
Morley, John, Viscount, on Russell, 160.
Motley, John Lothrop, 27, 274; social
taste, 200; returns to America, 237;
Grant's dislike of, 276; minister, 284.
Mount Felix, 121.
Mount Vernon, Va., 47.
Mullett, Albert B., 253.
Musset, Louis Charles Alfred de, 142.
Musurus,—, Turkish ambassador, 118,
135.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 28, 84, 112, 491.
Napoleon III, 96, 138, 208, 285, 289; declares
war on Austria, 83, 92; and Gladstone,
156; on intervention, 161; Mexican
venture, 162.
Nation, The, 243, 244, 250.
Nattier, Jean Marc, 391.
Newcastle, Duke of. See Clinton.
Newcomb, Simon, 377.
Newcome, Ethel, Sally Baxter, 131.
Newcomen, Thomas, 491.
New England, contrasts, 7; professions,
32; education of boys, 54; at Washington,
101.
Newman, John Henry, cardinal, 192.
Newport, R.I., social, 241.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 226, 376, 377, 451, 484,
486, 491, 495.
New York City, in 1905, 499.
Niagara, 112.
Nicolay, John George, 322.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 485.
Nordhoff, Charles, 255, 264.
North, Frederick, Lord, 174.
North American Review, 281, 286, 353;
articles in, 222, 233, 250, 258, 277, 280,
292; position of, 234, 244; Adams as
editor, 293, 296, 307.
North-Enders, Boston, 41.
Norton, Charles Eliot, editor N. A. Review,
222.
Nuth, Catherine, 16.
Office, poison of, 365.
Oliphant, Laurence, at Fryston, 139.
Olney, Richard, 331.
Order Spitze, 86.
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 453.
Owl, The, 139.
Oxenstiern, Axel Gustafsson, 100.
Palfrey, John Gorham, 27, 35; character,
29; history of, 221.
Palgrave, Cecil (Milnes Gaskell), 214.
Palgrave, Sir Francis [Cohen], 214.
Palgrave, Francis Turner, 192, 308; critic,
214, 220; war between Germany and
France, 285.
Palgrave, Reginald F. D., 214.
Palgrave, Robert Harry Inglis, 214.
Palgrave, William Gifford, 214.
Palmer, James Shedden, 94.
Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne, 149.
Palmerston. See Henry John Temple.
Paris, 96; tone, 33; exposition, 1900, 379;
education in, 403.
Parker, Theodore, 27, 29, 42; deism, 35.
Parkes, Joseph, 184; busy-body, 120.
Parkman, Francis, sale of works, 327.
Parkman, George, 20.
Pascal, Blaise, 389, 427, 485.
Patti, Adelina, 200.
Pauncefote, Sir Julian, 374, 393, 436.
Peabody, George, 121.
Pearl, Cora [Emma Elizabeth Crouch],
209.
Pearson, Karl, "Grammar of Science,"
449, 456, 495.
Peel, Sir Robert, 33.
Pendleton, George Hunt, 295.
Pennsylvanian, type of, 333.
Perfection, social, 33.
Persia, 71.
Philippe, Louis, 33, 40.
Philippines, the, 363.
Phillips, Wendell, 29, 42.
Phillips, William Hallett, 350.
Phocas, Nicephoras, 482.
Plato, 62.
Plehve, Viatscheslaf Konstantinovich, assassinated,
471.
Poincaré, Raymond, 454, 456, 460.
Polk, James Knox, 5, 13.
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson,
Marquise de, 391.
Pope, Alexander, 36.
Post, New York Evening, 244, 336.
Prescott, William Hickling, 27.
Press, the, as a career, 211; religious, 352.
Presidents, respect for, 47.
Priestley, Joseph, 486.

517

Privilege, Bright on, 189.
Pteraspis, ganoid fish, 228, 229, 265, 291,
302, 352, 355, 398, 399.
Pumpelly, Raphael, 87, 449.
Punch, on Russell, 164.
Puritans, 483; moral standards, 26; Palfrey
on, 222.
Quarterly, refuses article, 287.
Quincy, Edmund, 29.
Quincy, Mass., 9; want of style, 10.
Rabelais, François, 454.
Radium, 381, 397.
Rafael, Adams buys a, 216.
Railroads, study of American, 240; situation
of, 330.
Rams, the Confederate, 167.
Rawlins, John Aaron, and Grant, 264, 265.
Raymond, Henry Jarvis, 101, 120, 244.
Rebellion, English leaning to, 183.
Reclus, Elisée, 351, 407.
Reed, Thomas Brackett, 331.
Reed,—, curator of drawings, British
Museum, on Rafael drawing, 217.
Reeve, Henry, 125, 258, 282; described,
192; refuses article, 286.
Reichenbach, Hofräthin von, 87.
Reid, Whitelaw, 210, 235, 244, 347.
Religion, in Boston, 34.
Renan, Ernest, 61.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 391.
Rich, the very, 347.
Richardson, Henry Hobson, 55, 64, 235,
315, 318, 341, 386; in Paris, 213.
Rienzi, Cola di, 91.
Roads, Virginia, 47.
Rock Creek, 268; St. Gaudens' figure, 329.
Rockefellers, the, 235.
Rockhill, William Woodville, 356, 361.
Rodin, Auguste, 391.
Roebuck, John Arthur, connection with
confederate agents, 186; encounter with
Bright, 187.
Roentgen, Wilhelm Konrad, 450.
Rome, in 1870, 89.
Roosevelt, Theodore, 332, 356, 421, 436,
447; outspeaking, 464; and the trusts,
500.
Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore, 443.
Root, Elihu, 394, 464.
Rossini, Giochino Antonio, 94.
Rubens, Peter Paul, 388.
Ruskin, John, 192, 387.
Russell, John, Earl, 116, 126, 148, 192,
208, 284; receives rebel emissaries, 115;
attitude towards C. F. Adams, 123;
insolent replies, 128; as host, 132; foreign
secretary, 135; Palmerston's bêtise,
137; wish to recognize Confederacy,
149, 152; rebel cruisers, 150; on intervention,
152, 154, 172, 174; Gladstone's
speech, 158; gives way, 161; dishonesty,
163; resemblance to J. Q. Adams, 167;
rebel rams, 167; weakness, 182; retirement,
212.
Russia, visited, 406; character of, 408;
position, 423, 437; rolling of, 439, 448;
in Manchuria, 462, 502.
Sac and soc, 368.
St. Francis d'Assisi, 367.
St. Gaudens, Augustus, 64, 315, 341, 391;
compensation, 326; figure at Rock
Creek, 329; inarticulate, 385; models
Hay's head, 465.
St. James's Club, conversation of, 117.
St. Louis, exposition, 1904, 465.
Salisbury, Marquis of. See Cecil.
Sargent, John Singer, 465.
Savage, James, 41.
Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich von,
81.
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 406, 485.
Schurz, Carl, 322.
Scott, Robert Falcon, 502.
Scott, Sir Walter, 39.
Scott, Winfield, 59; in 1860, 106.
Secessionists, Southern, ignorance of, 100.
Secretaries of legation, in London, 117.
Secretary of State, duties, 375.
Selborne. See Palmer.
Senate, United States, in 1850, 45; treaty
delays, 374, 394; obstruction, 393; Secretary
of State and, 422.
Senators, United States, 272; in 1850, 45;
quality of, 102, 261, 354.
Session, the, 258, 280, 292.
Seward, William Henry, 25, 29, 49, 110,
113, Il6, 121, 129, 149; aspirant to
Presidency, 89; in 1860, 102; Secretary
of State, 103; described, 104; English
prejudice, 122; a demon, 130; offer of
appointment, 145; propaganda, 146;
support by, 171; strength, 174; in 1868,
246.

518

Sex in art, 385; inertia of, 441.
Seymour, Margaret, Duchess of Somerset,
118.
Shakespeare, William, 62, 492.
Sherman, John, 295, 332; Secretary of
State, 356.
Sherman, William Tecumseh, 245.
Shropshire, beauty of, 228.
Silence, praise of, 358.
Silver, question of, 334; repeal of act, 343.
Slave power, influence, 25, 48; fugitive,
law, 42; states, 43, 44.
Slidell, John, 184; seizure on Trent, 119.
Smalley, George Washburn, 198, 210.
Smith, Adam, 351.
Smith, Captain John, essay on, 222.
Smith, Sydney, 201.
Sohm, Rudolph, 368.
Somerset, Duchess of. See Seymour.
Sotheby's, London, 213.
South-Ehders, Boston, 41.
Sothern, Edward Askew, as Dundreary,
181.
Spaulding, Elbridge Gerry, 277.
Specie payments, 233.
Speck von Sternberg, Baron, 437.
Spencer, Herbert, 385.
Spinoza, Baruch de, 226, 456, 484.
Springfield Republican, 278.
Spring-Rice, Cecil Arthur, 332, 356.
Stallo, John Bernhard, 452; "Concepts of
Science," 377, 449.
Stanley, Edward George Geoffrey Smith,
Earl of Derby, 184, 194, 235.
Stanley, Edward John, 154.
Stanley, Edward Lyulph, 127.
Stanton, Edwin McMasters, 171.
State Street, influence, 21.
Statistics, uncertainty of, 351.
Stelvio Pass, 86.
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 139, 260, 319.
Stickney, Joseph Trumbull, 403, 405.
Stirling-Maxwell, Sir William, at Fryston,
139.
Stoeckel,—, 255.
Storey, Moorfield, 256.
Story, William Wetmore, 93.
Struve, Madame de, 256.
Stubbs, William, 141.
Sturgis, Mrs. Russell, 121.
Suess, Eduard, 400.
Sumner, Charles, 29, 35, 111, 116, 261,
263, 271, 281, 282, 298, 394; ambition
and position, 30; senator, 49; in Berlin,
76; quotes Oxenstiern, 99; in 1860, 102;
breaks with C. F. Adams, 107; opposes
him as minister, 11, 115; English liking
for, 122; resumes relations with
Adams, 251; quarrel with Fish, 274;
Alabama claims, 275.
Sun, New York, 244.
Surrenden Dering, Kent, 364.
Survey of the 40th parallel, 309.
Sutherland, Duke of. See Leveson-Gower.
Swinburne, Algernon, 201, 319; at Fryston,
139; on silence, 358.
Tautphœus, Jemima (Montgomery), baroness
von, "The Initials," 87.
Taylor, Richard, 198.
Taylor, Zachary, meeting with, 46.
Temple, Amelia (Lamb Cowper), Lady
Palmerston, 137; popularity, 133.
Temple, Henry John, Viscount Palmerston,
92, 125, 148, 149, 151, 284; as Tiberius,
114; dangerous quality, 132; on
Butler's order, 136; on recognizing confederacy,
152, 154, 159, 161, 174; simplicity,
164; senility, 168; rebel rams,
177; death, 212.
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 92, 201, 206,
224.
Terebratula, uniformity, 228, 266, 291.
Teutonic, the, 318.
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 35, 61,
201; on Lincoln's brutality, 131; satirist,
181.
Thibaut of Champagne, 471.
Thomson, Sir William Lord Kelvin, 381,
401, 450.
Thüringen, tramp in, 81, 82.
Ticknor, George, 27.
Tilden, Samuel Jones, 373.
Times, London, on Adams's article, 120;
slowness of, 170.
Tocqueville, Alexis Henri Charles Maurice
Clérel, Comte de, 33, 192.
Torrey, Henry Warren, 300.
Town and country, New England, 8.
Treaties, in Senate, 374, 394.
Trent, affair of the, 119, 128.
Trevelyan, Sir Charles Edward, 127.
Tribune, New York, 244, 278.
Tricoupi, S., 135.
Trusts, battle of, 500.
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, 479, 493.

519

Turner, Joseph Mallord William, 213.
Tylor, Edward Burnett, 301.
Tyndall, John, 225.
Unitarianism, Boston, 34.
United States, society in, 237.
Unity, 226, 397, 429; chaos, 406.
Valtellina, 86.
Van Buren, Martin, 25, 46.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 238.
Van de Weyer, Silvain, Belgian minister,
135.
Venables, George Stovin, 125, 201.
Vertebrate, first, 228.
Vicksburg, fall of, 169, 174.
Victoria, Queen, 40, 359; taste, 195.
Vigny, Alfred de, 358.
Virgin, force of the, 383, 468.
Virginia, roads, 47; youth, 57; in 1860,
105.
Volta, Alessandro, 491.
Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de, 140,
391, 485.
Wagner, Richard, 8l, 404.
Walcott, Charles Doolittle, 399.
Walker, Francis Amasa, 248; legal tender
cases, 277.
Walker, James, 27, 64.
Walpole, Sir Spencer, 152.
Walton-on-Thames, 121.
Ward, Samuel, 253, 264, 282.
Washburn, Israel, 101.
Washington, George, 47, 260, 372; slavery
and, 47, 50.
Washington, Martha (Dandridge Custis),
48.
Washington monument, Washington, 44,
47.
Washington, D.C., Boston to, 43; in 1850,
44; in 1860, 99; in 1868, 243, 252; society,
256, 296; in 1892, 320.
Watt, James, 486, 491.
Watteau, Antoine, 391.
Watterson, Henry, 255.
Webster, Daniel, 24, 29, 45, 49, 102, 148,
394; representative of Boston, 32.
Weed, Thurlow, 49, 103, 149, 150; in England,
146.
Wells, David Ames, 281.
Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire, 207, 228, 290,
355.
West, the, in 1871, 309; in 1904, 465.
Westcomb, Sir Anthony, 216.
West Indies, Grant's policy, 275.
Westminster Review, 284, 292.
Wharton, Francis, 299.
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, 220, 370,
386.
White, Stanford, 315, 341, 386.
White House, Washington, visit to, 46.
Whitman, Walt, 385.
Whitney, Josiah Dwight, 309.
Whitney, William Collins, 235, 295, 321,
331, 373; measure of success, 347.
Wide-Awakes, 99.
Wilberforce, Samuel, 201.
Wilde, Hamilton, 92.
Wilhelm I, of Prussia, 78.
Wilhelm II, of Germany, 437, 464.
Wilkes, Charles, 121.
Wilson, Charles L., secretary of legation,
111, 130.
Wilson, Henry, 49.
Winthrop, Robert Charles, 29; succeeds
Everett, 32.
Witte, Serge Julievich, Count, 438, 439,
444, 462.
Wolcott, Edward Oliver, 331.
Woman, American ideas of, 384.
Women, Boston, 40; American, 353, 442.
Woolner, Thomas, 220; sculptor, 215;
opinion on Reed, 219.
Wordsworth, William, 36.
Wren, Sir Christopher, 213.
Wright, Chauncey, 299.
Wynn, Charlotte, 207, 284.
Wynns of Wynstay, 206.
X-rays, 381, 397.
Yellowstone Park, 350.
Yorkshire, England, characteristics, 205.
Zeno, 389.