When Mrs. Frances Anne Kemble came to this country, she was amazed to find Americans celebrating the battle of Bunker Hill, which she had always heard claimed as a victory for King George.  Such it was doubtless called; but what we celebrated was the fact that the Americans there threw up breastworks, stood their ground, fired away their ammunition,—­and were defeated.  Thus the reformer, too, looking at his failures, often sees in them such a step forward, that they are the Bunker Hill of a new revolution.  Give us plenty of such defeats, and we can afford to wait a score of years for the victories.  They will come.

INDEX

Acidalius, Valens
Adams, J.Q. 
Adams, Mrs. John
Addison, Joseph
Adelung, J.C. 
Agassiz, Alexander
Agrippa, Cornelius
Alabaster, Henry
Alcott, Louisa
Alderson, Baron
Amalasontha, Queen
Anne, Queen
Antisthenes
Aponte, Emanuele
Arblay, Madame d’
Aristotle
Ashburton, Lady

Bacon, Francis
Bagehot, Walter
Barry, J.S. 
Barton, Clara
Beaujour, L.F. de
Beecher, H.W. 
Behn, Mrs. Aphra
Bennett, Mr.
Beyle, Henri (Stendhal)
Blackburn, Henry
Blackstone, William
Blind, Karl
Bolingbroke, H.S. 
Bonaparte, Napoleon
Bonheur, Rosa
Boswell, James
Boufflet, Margaret
Brigitta, Saint
Brooks, Phillips
Brougham, Lord
Brown, John
Browne, C.F. (Artemus Ward)
Browning, Elizabeth B.
Browning, Robert
Buchan, Countess of
Buckle, H.T. 
Buffon, Count de
Bulan, Madame
Burke, Edmund
Burleigh, Lord
Butler, Samuel
Byron, Lord

Caesar, Julius
Calhoun, J.C. 
Cameron, Dr.
Canning, George,
Catherine II., Empress
Channing, W.E. 
Chapman, Chief Justice
Charlemagne
Chatham, Earl of
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Chesterfield, Earl of
Child, Lydia M.
Choate, Rufus
Choisi, Abbe
Christina of Sweden
Christlieb, Professor
Churchill, Charles
Clarendon, Earl of
Clarke, E.H. 
Clay, Henry
Coleridge, Justice
Comer, Mr.
Comte, Auguste
Confucius
Copley, J.S. 
Cornaro, Elena
Cowper, William
Crocker, Mrs. H. (Mather)
Cromwell, Oliver
Currie, James
Curzon, George

Dacier, Madame
Dahlgren, Mrs. M.V. 
Dall, Mrs. Caroline A.
Dana, Mr.
Dante degli Alighieri
Darling, Grace
Darwin, Charles
Davy, Sir Humphry
Demosthenes
Dickens, Charles
Dickinson, Anna
Dinser, George
Dinser, Lena
Dix, Dorothea
Dobell, Sidney
Domenichi, Ludovico
Douglass, Frederick
Drake, Sir Francis
Dryden, John
Dudevant, Madame (George Sand)
Dufour, Madame Gacon

Eastman, Mary F.
Edgeworth, Maria
Elizabeth, Queen
Elizabeth of Russia
Elstob, Elizabeth
Emerson, R.W. 
Everett, Edward