ABERDEEN, Lord, 184, 292
Accompt Book of Wedder-
burn, The," 273
Addington and Burns, 63
Addison, 67, 94, 157, 158
Æschylus, 158
Africa, 191
Althorp, 153
Angelo, Michael, 258
Antiquary, The," 91
Ariosto, 163
Arlington Street, 126
Ascham, Roger, 155
Ashburton, Lady, 313
Atholl Crescent, Mr. Gladstone
BALFOUR, Mr. Arthur, 173
Bannockburn, 83
Baudelaire, 92
Beaconsfield, Lord, 23, 133, 254
Bell, Mr. Fitzroy, 275
Besant, Sir Walter, 123, 126
Bicycling, 236
Blackstone, 158
Blaikie, Mr., 278
Blind Harry, 78
Bolingbroke, 67, 157, 163
a bookish statesman, 153
BOOKISHNESS AND STATES-
MANSHIP, 141, et seq.: Remi-
niscences of the Philosophical
Institution of Edinburgh, 141;
the genius of Brougham, 144;
Mr. Gladstone one of the most
bookish statesman that ever
lived, 145; Macaulay's literary
avidity, 146; the life of the
library and the life of politics,
147; the publicity of politics,
148; Mr. Gladstone a true
lover of books, not a biblio-
maniac, 149; his literary
exports and imports, 151; the
bookishness of Prime Minis-
ters Harley, 153; Boling-
broke, 153; Stanhope, 153;
Sunderland, 153; Walpole,
153; Lord Grenville, 155;
Canning, 156; Melbourne,
156; Sir Robert Peel, 156;
Lord John Russell, 156; Lord
Beaconsfield, 156; Lord Salis-
bury, 156; the bookishness
of other Ministers-Addison,
157; Burke, 157; Charles
Fox, 157; Chesterfield, 160;
Carteret, 160; the last two
centuries presenting no real
parallel to Mr. Gladstone,
164; Mr. Parnell the exact
antipodes of Mr. Gladstone,
166; the true life of the poli-
tician the balance of action
and study, 168; bookishness
2 source of happiness to the
statesman, 169
Book of Dignities," Haydn's,
279
Boyd, Dr., 324
Bristol and Burke, 6
Bristol, the freemen of, 10
Brougham, Lord, 7, 143, 144,
178
Browne, Sir Thomas, 92
Browning, 92, 130
Bruce, 83
Burford Bridge, 90
BURKE,6, et seq.: his connection
with Bristol, 6; his meagre
official honours, 7; reasons
for losing his seat at Bristol,
8; the manufacture of Bris-
tol freemen, 10; his connec-
tion with Chatterton, II;
secret of his character, 12;
his views on reform, 13; his
attitude towards the French
Revolution, 14; his devotion
to the call of duty, 16; use of
his time out of office, 17; im-
peachment of Warren Hast-
ings, 17; his comparative
failure in his lifetime, 18; his
eventual justification,
"what shadows we are," 20;
his enduring fame, 21; his
burial-place, 25; the unsuc-
cessful farmer, 25; his rural
surroundings at Gregories,
26; compounding pills for
the poor, 26
Burke, 50, 157
Burney, Miss, 90
BURNS, ROBERT, 31, et seq.:
his Dumfries associations, 31;
Scotland's special debt to him,
33; the celebration of his
death, 34; his last months,
36; his funeral, 39; "happy
in the occasion of his death,"
40; his last years of misery,
41; the best poetry produced
before middle age, 44; his
confidence in the judgment of
posterity, 45; this confidence
vindicated, 46; the reasons
of his confidence, 47; his
masterpiece, 47; his place in
the roll-call of fame, 49; the
Titans of the eighteenth cen-
tury, 50; the secret of his
fame, 51; "the miracle called
Burns," 52; his early life, 52;
the man far more wonderful
than his works, 53; the mag-
netism of his presence and
conversation, 54; his prose,
55; his sympathy, 56; the
charm of the home, 56; the
universality of his poetry, 57;
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