Land of Prester John, The, by Sir John Mandeville, 2-7.
Letters: Elizabeth Clare to John Paston, 7, 8; the Duke of

Suffolk (A. D. 1450) to his Son, 8, 9; Sir John Fastolf to John
Paston, 9; Margaret Paston to her Son, Sir John, 9, 10;
two from Sir Thomas Wyatt to his Son, 23, 24. Of
Martyrs under Mary: Lawrence Saunders to his Wife, 31,
32; John Careless to his Wife, 32, 33. Of Euphues, 47,
49; Gabriel Harvey to Edmund Spenser on the Earth-
quake in April, 1580, 67, 693; four from Sir Henry
Wotton, 109-111; one by William King, 229-232; one
of the Drapier's, by Jonathan Swift, 249-252; four from
Lord Chesterfield to his Son, 259, 260; one from Parson
Adams, by Henry Fielding, 268, 270; one from Stephen
Grub, by Henry Fielding, 270-272; one from Samuel
Johnson to Lord Chesterfield, 283; four by Thomas Gray,
286-288; ten to and from Samuel Richardson, 288-299;

five by Horace Walpole, 314-317; two by Samuel
Johnson, 322, 323; seven by William Cowper, 327-330;
Edmund Burke to a Member of the National Assembly,
on the French Revolution, 348-364; one from Spain, by
Robert Southey; one by William Wordsworth, 378, 379.

License, Poetic, John Dryden's Apology for, 171-175.
Life in As-You-Like, by Douglas Jerrold, 426-428.

-, How to Live; Why Men Live, by John Ruskin, 429, 430.
-, The Price of, by Thomas Carlyle, 431.

--, Stories from, by Richard Steele, 226-228.

Literature, Good Taste in, by Henry Fielding, 272, 273.
Little Paul, The Death of, from "Dombey and Son," by

More, Sir Thomas, 14-16;26-30.

Mort d'Arthur, William Caxton's Preface to the, 13, 14.
Mother and Child, Richard Steele on the Relations between,
247.

to Son, from the Paston Letters, 9, 10.

Mulso, Miss, to Samuel Richardson, 294, 295; Richardson's
Answer, 295, 296.

Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts, by Thomas De
Quincey, 401-403.

of the Princes in the Tower, Sir Thomas More's account
of the, 14-16.

Myself, an Essay by Abraham Cowley, 170, 171.

Ν.

Negotiating, Francis Bacon's Essay of (A.D. 1597), 93.
Negro, The Grateful, by Maria Edgeworth, 371-377.
New Atlantis, The, by Francis Bacon, 115-127.
Newspaper Reporter, Charles Dickens on himself as a, 411, 412,
Noctes Ambrosianæ, North and the Shepherd, by John
Wilson, 399-401..

North Briton, Number 45 of the, by John Wilkes, 300-302.
Notable Services performed by Sir Francis Drake, from
Hakluyt's "Voyages," 87-89.

Nothing, An Essay on, by Henry Fielding, 266-269.

Novels, Elizabethan: John Lyly's "Euphues" described, 43-
47; Robert Greene's "Pandosto," 50-65. Stuart: Mrs.
Behn's "History of the Royal Slave," 175-195.

0.

Observation on Vitiated Sight, by Robert Boyle, 167, 168.
Occasional Reflection, An, by Robert Boyle, 166, 167.

Oroonoko, by Aphra Behn, 175-195.

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 106-108.

P.

Pacolet, Richard Steele's, from The Tatler, 221, 222.

Pandosto, or the Triumph of Time, by Robert Greene, 50-65.
Parson Adams, A Letter from, by Henry Fielding, 269, 270.
Partridge, the Almanack-maker, Jonathan Swift's Prediction

of the Death of, 212, 213.

Paston Letters, 7-10.

Pastorals of Pope and Philips, An Essay on the, by Alexander
Pope in The Guardian, 243-245.

Pedant, Character of a, by Sir Thomas Overbury, 107.
Philosophical Transactions for the Year 1742-3, by Henry
Fielding, 263-266.

Pleasant and Pithy Familiar Discourse of the Earthquake in
April, 1580, in a Letter from Gabriel Harvey to Edmund
Spenser, 67-69.

Poetrie, An Apologie for, by Sir Philip Sidney, 70-86.
Poetry, Apology for Heroic, and Poetic License, by John
Dryden, 171-175.

Poor, Fortitude of the, by Oliver Goldsmith, 312, 313.
Pope, Alexander, 243-245.

Prefaces: William Caxton's to "La Mort d'Arthur," 13, 14;
Roger Ascham's to "Toxophilus," 25, 26, to "the School-
master," 40-43; Daniel Defoe's to The Weekly Review,
207-209; Richard Steele's to "The Ladies' Library," 246,
247.

Prerogative, John Locke on, 198-200.

Prester John, The Land of, by Sir John Mandeville, 2-7.
Printing, Defence of the Liberty of Unlicensed, by John
Milton, 132-149.

Quincey. (See De Quincey.)

Q.

R.

Rambler, Samuel Johnson's, An Essay from, 273, 274.
Reflection, An Occasional, by Robert Boyle, 166, 167.
Regimen of Health, Francis Bacon's Essay of (A.D. 1597), 92.
Reverence, John Ruskin on, 428, 429.

Review, The Weekly, by Daniel Defoe, Introduction to, 207-
209.

Revolution, The French, Edmund Burke's Letter on the, to a

Member of the National Assembly, 348-364.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 331-334.
Richardson, Samuel, Letters to and from, 288-299.
Rogers, John, Martyr, Examination and Answer of, 33-36.

-, Second Confession of, 36-39.

Roundabout Papers, One of the, by William Makepeace
Thackeray, 422-425.

Round Table, Three Essays from the, by William Hazlitt and
Leigh Hunt, 389-397.

Royal Slave, Aphra Behn's History of the, 175-195.
Ruskin, John, 428-430.

S.

Sad Memories, an Essay from The Tatler, by Richard Steele,
225, 226.

Sailing Chariot, Of a, by John Wilkins, 162-165.

Saunders, John, Martyr, Letter of, to his Wife, 31, 32.
Scholar, a Downright, Character of, by John Earle, 130.
Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of, 240-

242.

Shenstone, William, 283-285.

Shifter, Character of a, by Robert Greene, 50.

Shortest Way with the Dissenters, The, by Daniel Defoe, 200

-206.

Sidney, Sir Philip, 69-86.

Sight, Vitiated, An Observation on, by Robert Boyle, 167, 168.
Sir Roger de Coverley, Two Papers on, by Joseph Addison,

238-240.

Skelton, Merry Tales of, 30, 31.

Slave, The History of a Royal, by Aphra Behn, 175-195.

Trade, The, by William Cobbett, 377.

Smith, Sydney, 379-385.
Smollett, Tobias, 274-281.

Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author, from Shaftesbury's

"Characteristics," 240-242.

Southey, Robert, 369-371; 396, 397.
Spain, A Letter from, by Robert Southey, 369-371.
Spectator, Essays from the, by Richard Steele and Joseph

Addison, 233-235.

Club, The, by Richard Steele, 226-228.
Steele, Richard, 213-228; 232-236;245-248.
Sterne, Laurence, 302-308; his Memoir of Himself, 306, 307.
Stories from Life, by Richard Steele, from The Tatler, 226-
228.

Studies, Francis Bacon's Essay of (A.D. 1597), 91, 92; (A.D.
1625), 114, 115.

Subordination of the Powers of the Commonwealth, John
Locke on the, 196-198.

Suffolk, The Duke of, to his Son (A.D. 1450), 8, 9.
Suitors, Francis Bacon's Essay of (A.D. 1597), 91, 92.
Superstitious, Character of the, by Joseph Hall, 106.
Swift, Jonathan, 211-213; 248-253.

т.

Tales: Five of the "Hundred Merry Tales," 16, 17; "The
Wonderful History of Titus and Gisippus," by Sir Thomas
Elyot, 18-23; Three of the "Merry Tales of Skelton," 31;
John Lyly's "Euphues," the Story abridged, 44-47; "Pan-
dosto, or the Triumph of Time," by Robert Greene, 50-
65; Three Stories from "Merry Tales, Witty Questions,
and Quick Answers," 65, 66; Five of the Merry Tales of
the Mad Men of Gotham, 103, 104; The New Atlantis, by
Francis Bacon, 116-127; The History of the Royal Slave,
by Aphra Behn, 175-195; Stories from Life, by Richard
Steele, 226-228; Inkle and Yarico, by Richard Steele,
235, 236; The Vision of Mirza, by Joseph Addison, 236,
237; A Dinner after the Manner of the Ancients, from
Smollett's "Peregrine Pickle," 279-281; Yorick, from
Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," 303-306; The Grateful
Negro, by Maria Edgeworth, 371-377; Maria Schoning,
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 385-389; Little Paul Goes
Home, from "Dombey and Son," by Charles Dickens,

412-421.

Taste, Good, in Literature, by Henry Fielding, 272, 273.
Tatler, Essays for the, by Richard Steele and Joseph Addison,

216-228.

Taxation, American, Edmund Burke on, 337-343.

Taylor, Jeremy, 149-161.

Temple, Sir William, 200; 209, 210.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 421-425,

Tibbs, Beau, by Oliver Goldsmith, 309, 310.

Titus and Gisippus, The Wonderful History of, by Sir Thomas

Elyot, 18-23.

Toxophilus, Roger Ascham's Preface to, 25, 26.

Traveller, An Affectate, Character of, by Sir Thomas Over-
bury, 107.

-, Character of a, by Ben Jonson, 105.

against the, 352,1; Incidents
of the, 352, 2

Rich, Christopher, 257, 4

Richardson, Samuel, his writing-

162, 4

Salmagundi, 231, 1

Sanderson, Robert, 238, 3
Sannazaro, 141, 1

Sarpi, Pietro Paolo, 136, 4
Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter,

A Tale from the, 235, 3

Schevyfte, 9, 6
Scion, 107, 1
Scisma d'Inghilterra, 136, 6
Scudéri, Madeleine de, 154, 1, 2
Seely, 51, 1; 55, 2
Seen in (skilled), 123, 1

Seneca, Marcus Annæus, 169, 1
Sentry, Captain, Steele's, 234, 1
Shakespeare and Philip Sidney,

76,3; and Francis Bacon,
91,2

Sibyls, Raffaelle's, 332, 13
Sight (quantity), 65, 3
Sindons, 119, 1; 124, 2
Singer, Mr. S. W., 16, 1
Sistine Chapel, The, 332, 1
Skelton, John, 139, 6

Skinner, John, of Reigate, 23, 3
Smith, Sir Thomas, 42, 1

Socrates, 71, 1; 82, 2

The Historian, 138, 1

Soho Square, 233, 3
Solidounoi, 160, 2

Sort (company), 35, 4; 36,1; 65, 2;

146, 1

Soul of the World, The, 135, 3
Sownde (swoon), 21,1; sound,

55,1

Speech, The Parts of a, 133, 2
Spenser and Milton, 139, 3
Stales (decoy-birds), 59, 1
State (canopied seat), 124, +
Statement, The, as Second Part

of an Oration, 133,2; 134,5

States (statesmen), 133, 3
Stationers' Company, The, 134, 6
Statists, 134, 1

Steele's Signatures to The Spec-

tator, 235, 1

Stevin, Simon, of Bruges, 162, +

Stirps, 120, 1

Stobæus, 153, 3

Stond, 115, 2

Sturm, John, 42, 4

Style, The Ancient, 1, 1

Summa Predicantium, 160, 3

Surinam, 176, 1

Surplice, 148, 1

Taprobane, 6, 1

Tasman, Abel Jans, 116, 3

Thaletas, 135, 11

Theagenes and Chariclea, 73, 3
Then (than), 152, 1
Threepin, 400, 4

Tigers in the New World, Aphra

Behn's, 187, 1

Tillotson's Sermons, 238, 3
Timæus, Plato's, 71, 1

Tirocinium, Cowper's, 330, 1
Titles on Ancient Books, 1, 1
Toom nits, 399, 3

Topic folio, 145, 2

Torres, Luis Vaez de, 116, 3
Touchstone, 127, 1

Townshend, Lord, and Sir
Robert Walpole, 258, 2
Tragedies, Addison on, 291, 1
Traverse (movable screen), 122, a
Triennial Parliaments, 134, 2
Trophy, 133, 6

True Briton, No. 45, Wilkes's

Notes to the, 300, 302.

Typhon, 145, +