Part 36

Lansdowne, Lord, 228.

Laotze, 438.

Le Boeuf, Marshal, 334, 347, 351, 358.

Lecky, W. E. H., on American Loyalists, 105. Comparison with Walpole, 376.

=L'Empire Libéral=, 328-367. Constitutional reforms and character of Napoleon III., 330. Ollivier's difficult position as chief minister, 331. Crown of Spain accepted by Leopold, 332. Effect in France, warning to Prussia, 333-336. Benedetti's interview at Ems, 337. Leopold's compulsory renunciation, 338. Incautious action of Ollivier, 339; and of Gramont, 341. Assurances demanded from Prussia, 344. Ollivier meditates resignation, 345. Benedetti at Ems, 348. 'Le Soufflet de Bismarck,' 350. Declaration of war, 352. Thiers' opposition, Ollivier's defence, 353, 354. French enthusiasm, 358. Reception of declaration by Bismarck; 360; and by the Reichstag, 361. Bismarck's real responsibility, 362. Ollivier's acts and motives examined, 365.

=Letter-writing (English) in the Nineteenth Century=, 34-75. Conditions of fine letter-writing, 34. Affinities with the diary and the essay, 36. Poets as good letter-writers, 37. Value of letters for biographical and other purposes, 38. Earlier writers--Keats, Scott, Southey, Byron, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Shelley, Lamb, 39-47. Lord Morley's canon, 50. Later writers and their difficulties, 52. Dean Stanley's letters, 53. Matthew Arnold's, 57. Thomas Carlyle's, 63. Edward Fitzgerald's, 66. R. L. Stevenson's, 70.

Lever, Charles, 8, 92.

Liverpool, Lord, 66, 229, 230.

Lucretius, 271.

Macaulay, T. B., 61, 206. On Byron, 184, 191. His rejoinder to James Mill, 227. Influence on Walpole, 371. Ranke's criticism, 383.

Machiavelli: On judging by results, 329. On standing neutral in war, 331.

Mackintosh, as typical Whig, 228.

Maine, Sir H., on 'Sovereignty,' 412.

Malthus, T., 234, 236.

Manning, Cardinal, 53, 74.

Marbot, success of his Memoirs, 13, 16.

Marcella, quoted, 27.

Marlborough, Thackeray's description of, 103.

Marryat, Captain, 8.

Master of Ballantrae, direct narration in, 18.

Maurice, 256.

Mayor's English Metres, 286.

Mazzini, 273. Quoted, 184.

Memoirs and fiction, 13.

Memorials of Coleorton, 42.

Meredith, George, 264.

Mill, see 'Utilitarians.'

Milton, 200, 287. Quoted, 183.