LITERARY FRIENDSHIP, 209-217.

LITERATURE an avenue to glory, 248.

LOCKE’S simile of the human mind, 25.

MANNERISTS in literature, 293.

MARCO Polo ridiculed unjustly, n. 79.

MATRIMONIAL STATE in literature and art, 198-208.

MAZZUCHELLI a great literary historian, 352.

MEDITATION, value of, 129.

MEMORY, as an art, 120, 122.

MENDELSSOHN, Moses, his remarkable history, 61-64.

MEN of LETTERS, their definition, 226-238.

METASTASIO a bad sportsman, 38;
  his susceptibility, 140.

MILTON, his high idea of the literary character, 12;
  his theory of genius, 25;
  his love of study, 135;
  sacrifices sight to poetry, 152.

MISCELLANISTS and their works, 282-286.

MODES OF STUDY used by great men, 125.

MOLIERE, his dramatic career, 310-325.

MONTAIGNE, his personal traits, 223.

MORE, Dr., on enthusiasm of genius, 149.

MORERI devotes a life to literature, 152.

MORTIMER the artist, his athletic exercises, 39.

MURATORI, his literary industry, 351.

NATIONAL tastes in literature, 260.

NECESSITY, its influence on literature, 193-194.

OBSCURE BIRTHS of great men, 248-249.

OLD AGE of literary men, 238-244.

PECULIAR habits of authors, 119-120.

PEIRESC, his early bias toward literature, 234;
  his studious career, 235.

PERSONAL CHARACTER differs from the literary one, 217-226.

PETRARCH’S remarkable conversation on his melancholy, 68;
  his mode of life, 114.

POPE, his anxiety over his Homer, 81;
  severity of his early studies, 147.

POUSSIN fears trading in art, 193.

POVERTY of literary men, 186;
  sometimes a choice, 188-190.

PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE of life wanting in studious men, 183-185.

PRAYERS of great men, 146.

PRECIEUSES, 315-318.

PREDISPOSITION of the mind, 118.

PREFACES, their interest, 286;
  their occasional falsehood, 287;
  vanity of authors in, 288;
  idle apologies in, 289;
  Dryden’s interesting, 290.

PREJUDICES, literary, 160-163.

PUBLIC TASTE formed by public writers, 268.

RACINE, sensibility of, 83; 325-332.

RAMBOUILLET, Hotel de, 315-317.

READING analyzed, 298-302.

RECLUSE manners in great authors, 98-99.

RELICS of men of genius, 255-258.

REMUNERATION of literature, 194-195.

RESIDENCES of literary men, 255-257.

REYNOLDS, Sir J., his “automatic system,” 26;
  discovers its inconsistencies, 27.

RIDICULE the terror of genius, 94

ROBERTSON the historian, 341-350.

ROLAND, Madame, anecdote of the power of poetry on, 141.