Part 39

Sagas, 163, 168.

Sainte-Beuve, 194.

Say, Léon, 16.

Scotch common sense philosophy, 215.

Scotsman, the, in fiction, 109.

Scott, Michael, 8.

Scott, Sir Walter: Head of modern romantic school of fiction, 5. Abandoned poetry for prose, 6. Transferred dialogue from the drama to the novel, 108. His historical insight, 115. His descriptions of fighting, 103, 172, 190, 385. Quoted, 200.

Shakespeare, 39, 108, 198, 287, 380, 385. Quoted, 171, 275.

Shamil, see 'Frontiers,' 303, etc.

Shelley, 179, 185, 287. His letters, 44. Quoted, 207, 290. Comparison with Swinburne, 264. Swinburne's admiration, 288.

Shintoism, 443.

Shorthouse, J. H., 9.

Smollett, 111.

South African War, 176.

Southey, Robert, 41, 43, 62, 73, 206. Carlyle's description, 64. Type of Conservatism, 229.

Sovereignty, Territorial, a modern idea, 412.

Spenserian stanza, Byron's admiration for, 197.

Stanley, Dean, see 'Letter-writing.'

Stendhal, 87, 141.

Sterne, Laurence, 89.

Stevenson, R. L., see 'Letter-writing,' also 9, 116.

Surtees and the Sporting Novel, 26.

Swift, 89, 99. Thackeray's description, 103.

Swinburne, A. C., 69. On Byron, 183, 191, 207.

=Swinburne, Characteristics of his Poetry=, 263-290. Swinburne's predecessors and contemporaries, 263. Earlier poems, Atalanta in Calydon, Chastelard, 267. Poems and Ballads, published and withdrawn, 268; reissued with reply to critics, 272. Songs and Ballads, war upon theology, 273. Songs of the Four Seasons, 275. A Midsummer Holiday, 276. Love of the sea and of his country, 277. His power of musical phrasing, 279. His attitude to eminent contemporaries, 282. His dramas, 285. Concluding remarks: his high aspirations and his defects, 288.

Taeping rebellion, 423.

Taoism, 423, 438, 440.

Tchetchnia, in the Caucasus, 295, etc.