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ACADEMY, the French, some account of, i. 413-417; visit of Christina
Queen of Sweden to, 414; of Literature, designed in the reign of
Queen Anne, ii. 407; abortive attempts to establish various, ib.;
disadvantages of, ib.; arguments of the advocates for, ib.; should
be designed by individuals, 408; French origin of, 408-410; origin
of the Royal Society, 410-412; ridiculous titles of Italian, 479;
some account of the Arcadian, and its service to literature, 482;
derivation of its title, ib.; of the Colombaria, 483; indications
of, in England, 484; early rise of among the Italians, 485;
establishment of the "Academy," 486; suppressed, and its members
persecuted, ib.; of the "Oziosi," 488; suppression of many, at
Florence and Sienna, ib.; considerations of the reason of the
Italian fantastical titles of, &c., 489.

ACAJOU and Zirphile, a whimsical fairy tale, ii. 308-311.

ACCADEMIA of Bologna originated with Lodovico Caracci, ii. 399.

ACCIDENT, instances of the pursuits of great men directed by, i. 85.

ACEPHALI, iii. 193, and note, ib.

ACHES, formerly a dissyllable; examples from Swift, Hudibras, and
Shakespeare; John Kemble's use of the word, i. 81, note.

ACROSTICS, i. 295-296.

ACTORS, tragic, i. 248; who have died martyrs to their tragic
characters, 249; should be nursed in the laps of queens, 250;
anecdotes of, 250-251.

ADDISON, silent among strangers, i. 104.

ADRIANI, his continuation of Guicciardini's History, iii. 180.

ADVICE, good, of a literary sinner, i. 350.

AGATES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244.

AGOBARD, Archbishop of Lyons, i. 21, and note.

AGREDA, Maria, wrote the Life of the Virgin Mary, i. 367.

ALBERICO, vision of, ii. 422.

ALBERTUS MAGNUS, his opinion concerning books of magic, iii. 281;
his brazen man, 282; his entertainment of the Earl of Holland, 290.

ALCHYMISTS, results of their operations, iii. 284; their cautious
secresy, 285; discoveries by, ib.

ALCHYMY, anecdotes of professors of, i. 283-284; Henry VI.
endeavoured to recruit his coffers by, 284; professors of, called
multipliers, 285; books of, pious frauds, ib.; Elias Ashmole rather
the historian of, than an adept in, 286; opinions of modern chemists
on, 287.

ALEXANDRIA, library of, i. 1; Demetrius Phalereus, its industrious
and skilful librarian, ib.; original manuscripts of AEschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides procured for, ib.: destruction of, 47-57.

AMBASSADORS, anecdotes of frivolous points of etiquette insisted on
by, ii. 195-206.

AMICABLE ceremonies in various nations, ii. 12.

AMILCAR, the author of the Second Punic War, iii. 143.

AMPHIGOURIES, i. 298.

AMUSEMENT, periodical, during study, a standing rule among the
Jesuits, i. 31; various, practised by different celebrated men,
38-41.

ANAGRAMS, i. 298, ii. 229; are classed among the Hebrews with the
cabalistic sciences, 230; Platonic notions of, ib.; specimens of
Greek, ib.; several examples of curious, 231-233; amusing anecdotes
concerning, 234.

ANCILLON and his library, i. 10, and note.

ANDREINI, an actor and author of irregular Italian comedies, ii.
141; a drama of his gave the first idea to Milton of his "Paradise
Lost," ib.

ANECDOTES of European Manners, ii. 30-39; of Abstraction of Mind,
59-62; literary, their importance, 300; Dr. Johnson's defence of,
301; the absurdity of many transmitted by biographers, ib.; general
remarks on, 303.

ANGLESEA, Earl of, his MSS. suppressed, ii. 447.

ANIMALS, influence of music on, i. 272-4.

ANNIUS of Viterbo published seventeen books of pretended
antiquities, iii. 305; and afterwards a commentary, ib.; caused a
literary war, 306.

ANTEDILUVIAN researches, i. 301-303.

ANTI, a favourite prefix to books of controversy, i. 318.

ANTIQUARIES, Society of, inquiry into its origin and progress, ii.
413-415.

ANTONY, Marc, anecdote of, ii. 10.

APPAREL, excess in, proclamation against, by Elizabeth, iii. 375.

APPLES grafted on mulberry stocks, ii. 157, note.

ARCHESTRATUS, a celebrated culinary philosopher, ii. 246.

ARGUMENTS, invented by a machine, ii. 419.

ARIOSTO, his merits disputed in Italy, i. 386; public preference
given to, by the Accademia della Crusca, 387; his verses sung by the
gondoliers, 388.

ARISTOCRAT, a nick-name, iii. 83.

ARISTOTLE, account of criticisms on, i. 25; fate of his library, 53;
Arabic commentaries on, 61; rage for, ib.; his opinions on sneezing,
127; letter of Philip of Macedon to, 142; description of the person
and manners of, ib.; will of, 143; studied under Plato, ib.;
parallel between him and Plato, by Rapin, ib.; anecdote concerning
him and Plato, 144; raises a school, ib.; attacked by Xenocrates,
ib.; his mode of pointing out a successor, 145; writers against and
for, 314; bon-mot on his precepts, 407.

ARMSTRONG, Archibald, jester to Charles I., ii. 236, note.

ARNAULD, one of the most illustrious members of the Port Royal
Society, i. 94; anecdotes of, 96; was still the great Arnauld at the
age of eighty-two, 97.

ASHMOLE, Elias, his Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum, i. 286; his
Diary, ii. 209; his superstition, ib., note.

ASTRAEA, D'Urfe's romance of the, i. 451; sketch of, 452-454.

ASTROLOGERS, faith in, by celebrated characters, i. 278; Lilly
consulted by Charles I., ib.; Nostrodamus, by Catherine de Medici,
279; several have suffered death to verify their skill, ib.; shifts
and impostures of, 279-280.

ASTROLOGY, greatly flourished in the time of the Civil Wars, i. 280;
attacks on and defences of, 281-282.

ATELLANAE Fabulae, Atellan farces, ii. 131, and note, 132.

ATTICUS, employed to collect for Cicero, ii. 397; traded in books
and gladiators, 398.

AUBREY, John, extract from his correspondence, iii. 294; his search
after gold, ib.; his idea of universal education, 296.

AUDLEY, a lawyer and usurer, ii. 158; his commencement of life, and
means of rising in, 159; anecdote of him and a draper, 161; his
maxims of political economy, 162; his reply to a borrowing lord,
ib.; his manners and opinions, 168-170; his death and general
character, 170.

AUTOGRAPHS, indications of character, iii. 163; of English
sovereigns, 165-166.

BABINGTON'S conspiracy, some account of its progress, and of the
noble youths concerned in it, ii. 171; trial and defences of the
conspirators, 173; their execution, 175-176.

BACCHUS, ancient descriptions of, and modern translations of them,
ii. 292.

BACON, Lord, sketch of his life as a philosopher, iii. 320-326; more
valued abroad than at home, 327.

BAKER, Sir Richard, author of the "Chronicle," died in the Fleet,
ii. 452; his papers burnt, ib.

BALES, Peter, a celebrated caligrapher, i. 275; iii. 173-177.

BALLARD, the Jesuit, concerned in Babington's conspiracy, ii. 172;
expression of his on his trial, 173.

BAPTISTA PORTA, founded the Accademie of the Oziosi and Segreti,
iii. 290; considered himself a prognosticator, ib.; his magical
devices, ib.

BARBIER, Louis, anecdote relating to, ii. 11; his superstitious
observances, ib., note.

BARNARD, Dr., his "Life of Heylin," iii. 217-221.

BARTHIUS, Gaspar, a voluminous author, ii. 536; an infant prodigy,
ib.; published a long list of unprinted works, 537; its fate, ib.

BASNAGE, his Dictionary, iii. 233.

BAYLE, publishes his _Nouvelles de la Republique des Lettres_, i.
14; account of his death, 391; his conduct to his friend, 392; read
much by his fingers, ib.; amusements of, ib.; anecdotes relating to,
393; his "Critical Dictionary," remarks on its character, ii.
382-388; Gibbon's remarks on, 385; publication of, ib.; his
originality, how obtained, 386; his errors, 388; his personal
traits, 389; his characteristics, 388-396; changes his religion
twice, 390; extract from his diary, ib.; his methods of study, 391;
appointed to a professorship, ib.; deprived of it, ib.; laments his
want of books, 392; anecdotes of the effects of his works, 394; a
model of a literary character, 395.

BEAM in the eye of the Pharisee, literally represented in early art,
i. 307, and note.

BEARDS, various fashions in, i. 220.

BEAUSSOL, M. Peyraud de, his preface to his condemned tragedy, ii.
304-307.

BEN JONSON, masques by, iii. 12; assisted Rawleigh in his history of
the world, 131, and note.

BENEVOLENCES, iii. 218, 219.

BENTLEY, notice of his criticisms on Milton, i. 370-373.

BETHLEHEM Hospital, its original foundation, ii. 311, and note.

BETTERTON, anecdote of, i. 250.

BEZA, Theodore, an imitator of Calvin in abuse, i. 310; effect of
his work against toleration, iii. 245.

BIBLE, the prohibition of, ii. 19; various versions of, 20-23; a
_family_ one, 22; the Olivetan, iii. 155; corrupt state of the
English, formerly, 427; printing of, an article of open trade, 428;
shameful practices in the printing of, 428-431, and note; privilege
of printing granted to one Bentley, 430; Field's Pearl Bible
contained 6000 faults, 431; division of, into chapter and verse,
432.

BIBLIOMANE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOMANIA, i. 9.

BIBLIOGNOSTE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOGRAPHE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOGRAPHY, remarks on its importance, iii. 341.

BIBLIOPHILE, iii. 343.

BIBLIOTAPHE, iii. 343.

BIOGRAPHICAL parallels, iii. 425; a book of, proposed by Hurd, ib.;
between Budaeus and Erasmus, 426; instances of several, 427.

BIOGRAPHY, painted, a, iii. 137-141; remarks on, 414; sentimental,
distinguished from chronological, ib.; of Dante, by Boccacio and
Aretino, 415-419; domestic, 420-423; customary among the Romans,
424; comparative, a series of, projected by Elizabeth Hamilton, ib.

BIRCH, Dr., his great services to history, iii. 383.

BIRKENHEAD, Sir John, a newspaper writer and pamphleteer during the
great rebellion, i. 159.

BLACK Cloaks, a political nickname for a party in Naples, iii. 82.

BLENHEIM, secret history of the building of, iii. 102-111; drawn
from MSS., 103, note.

BONAVENTURE DE PERRIERS, specimen of his stories, i. 128.

BOOK of Sports, effect of, ii. 148.

BOOKS, collections of, see LIBRARIES; collectors of, see COLLECTORS;
reviews of, and criticisms on, see LITERARY JOURNALS and SKETCHES OF
CRITICISM; destruction of, see TITLE; lost, i. 47-57; prices of, in
early times, 76; treatise on the art of reading printed, 78; curious
advertisements of, 157; titles of, 288; various opinions as to the
size of, 347; difficulties encountered in publishing many books of
merit, 375; works of another description better remunerated, 377;
leaves of, origin of their name, ii. 23, note; table-books, 26;
derivation of the name "book," 28; description of the form and
condition of ancient, ib.; censors and licensers of, 216; catalogue
of, condemned at the Council of Trent, ib.; inquisitors of, ib.; see
INDEX; burning of, anecdote of its good effect in promoting their
sale, 219; mutilations caused by the censors in Camden's works, Lord
Herbert's History of Henry VIII., and the Poems of Lord Brooke, 220;
anecdotes of purloiners of, iii. 316-319; predilection of celebrated
men to particular, iii. 340-343; calculations as to their present
number, 342; different terms for amateurs of, 343; which have been
designed but not completed, 493, 494.

BOOKSELLERS, two ruined by one author, ii. 533.

BORROWERS, destructive to collections of books, i. 12.

BOTANIC GARDEN, Darwin's remarks on, i. 341.

BOURDALOUE, i. 257.

BOURGEOIS, Pere, one of the Chinese missionaries, account of his
attempt at preaching in Chinese, i. 268.

BOUTS RIMES, i. 296.

BRANDT, Ship of Fools, i. 7.

BRIDGEWATER, late Duke of, destroyed many family MSS., ii. 451.

BUCKINGHAM, Duke of, his familiarity and coarseness with James I.,
i. 463, note; his conduct in Spain, ii. 4; equally a favourite with
James I. and Charles I., 5; Hume's character of, ib. and 355;
anecdote of him and the Queen of France, 6; his audacity and
"English familiarity," ib.; anecdote of him and Prince Charles, 7;
his rise, 10; his magnificent entertainment of Charles I. and the
French ambassador, 327; his character, 356-358, and notes; his fears
of being supplanted, 357, note; contrast between him and Richelieu,
358; secret history of his expedition to Spain with Prince Charles,
359; prognostics of his death, 364; portrait of, 366, note;
determined to succour Rochelle, 367; his death, 371; satires on,
369, 370; possessed the esteem of Charles I., ib.; his extravagance
in dress, iii. 407; intrigued with the Puritans, 443; his
intercourse with Dr. Preston, a Puritan, 444; discovers Preston's
insincerity, and abandons the Puritans, 445; his impeachment, 452;
his failure at the Isle of Rhe, 458; offers to resign his offices,
469; hatred of, by the parliament, 470-474.

BUFFON, Vicq d'Azyr's description of his study, iii. 208.

BUILDINGS in the metropolis, opposition to, from the days of
Elizabeth to those of Charles II., iii. 363; statutes against, 364;
proclamations against, 365.

BURNET, his book against Varillas, i. 132, and note.

BURYING grounds, iii. 231.

BUTLER, the author of "Hudibras," vindicated, ii. 491-495.

CADIZ, expedition to, in the time of Charles I., ii. 366; satirical
lines on, 367.

CALAMY, his "History of the Ejected Ministers," iii. 240.

CALUMNY, political advantages of, iii. 81.

CALVIN, less tolerant than Luther in controversy, i. 309.

CAMUS, his "Medecine de l'Esprit," ii. 469.

CARACCI, family of the, ii. 399; Lodovico, character of, ib.; the
school of the, 401, note; Agostino and Annibale, their opposite
characters, 402; the three opened a school in their own house, 403;
Agostino's eminence there, ib.; his sonnet, comprising the laws of
painting, 404; Domenichino, Albano, Guido, Guercino, their pupils,
405; disputes between Annibale and Agostino, ib.; their separation,
406.

CARDINAL RICHELIEU, anecdotes of, and considerations on his
character, i. 139-142.

CARLETON, Sir Dudley, Vice-Chamberlain of Charles I., his speech to
the Commons on the imprisonment of two of their members for their
impeachment of Buckingham, iii. 455.

CARTOONS of Raphael, now at Hampton Court, offered for sale, and
bought by Cromwell, ii. 333; nearly sold to France by Charles II.,
ib., note; the gallery for their reception built by William III.,
ib.

CATHERINE DE' MEDICI, her belief in astrology, iii. 347; employs
Montluc to intrigue to secure the election of the Duke of Anjou to
the crown of Poland, 349.

CATHARINOT, a voluminous writer, ii. 545; his singular mode of
publishing his unsaleable works, 546.

CAUSE and Pretext, distinction between, to be observed by
historians, iii. 141; anecdotal illustrations, 142-144.

CAXTON, the printer, his earliest works, i. 75, note.

CAYET, Dr., his "Chronologie Novenaire," ii. 7.

CENSERS used to sweeten houses in the reign of Elizabeth, ii. 38,
note.

CENSORS of books, designed to counteract the press, ii. 216;
originated with the Inquisition, ib.; appointed with the title of
Inquisitors of Books, ib.; disagreement among these Inquisitors,
217; in Spain, 218; their treatment of commentators on the "Lusiad,"
ib.; instances of the injury done to English literature by the
appointment of, 220; never recognised by English law, 221; regularly
established under Charles I., 223; office of, maintained by the
Puritans, ib.; treatment of Milton by, ib.; the office lay dormant
under Cromwell, 224; revived and continued under Charles II. and
James II., ib.; anecdotes relative to, 226-228.

CENTOS, i. 299.

CEREMONIES, different, among various nations, ii. 12-15.

CERVANTES, remark of i. 394; taken prisoner at the battle of Lepanto,
ib.

CHAMILLART, Minister of France, his rise, ii, 11.

CHARADES, i. 297.

CHARLES MARTEL, his combat with, and defeat of, the Mahometans, ii.
430.

CHARLES the Bald of France, his remarkable vision, ii. 423.

CHARLES the First, account of his expedition into Spain, ii. 1-4;
anecdote of him and Buckingham, 6; history of his diamond seal, 326;
his love of the fine arts, 327; the magnificence and taste of his
court entertainments, 328; anecdote of, 329; catalogue of his
effects, 331-334; an artist and a poet, 334, 335, and note;
influence of his wife on, doubted, 336; his dismissal of his wife's
French establishment, 345; reply to the French ambassador's
remonstrances, 347; his conduct on the death of Buckingham, 371;
secret history of him and his first Parliaments, iii. 448; the
latter a sullen bride, ib.; his address to his first Parliament, and
their ungracious conduct, 449; they abandoned the king, 450; raises
money on Privy Seals, ib.; on the failure of the expedition to Cadiz
he called his second Parliament, 451; communications between him and
his Parliament, ib.; his address to them, noticing the impeachment
of Buckingham, 452; his conduct on that occasion the beginning of
his troubles, 453; on the Commons' further remonstrance against
Buckingham, he dissolves his second Parliament, 457; his distress
for money, ib.; his fresh distresses on the failure of the
expedition to the Isle of Rhe, and his expedients to raise money,
458, 459; their ill success, 460, 461; reflections on his situation,
463; rejects the proffered advice of the President of the
Rosy-Cross, 464; anonymous letter sent to the Commons, and by them
forwarded to the king without perusing, 465; secret measures used by
the opposition, 466; speech of the king to Parliament, 467; his
emotion on being informed that the Parliament had granted subsidies
468; debates on the king's message, 469; Eliot's speech thereon,
470; Coke's memorable speech, 473; the king grants his assent to the
Petition of Right, 475; popular rejoicings, 476; presentation of the
Remonstrance, ib.; the king's conduct after the assassination of
Buckingham, 477; vow of the Parliament to maintain the Articles of
Religion of the 13th Eliz., 478; tumult in the House, and
dissolution of the Parliament, 480.

CHARLES the Fifth, his edicts against the Reformed religion, iii.
242; his conduct influenced by political, not religious motives,
243.

CHARLES the Ninth, account of the death of, ii. 7-9; his apology for
the massacre of St. Bartholomew, iii. 255-259; his character, 260.

CHERRIES, introduction of, into Great Britain, ii. 156; loss and
reintroduction of, in the reign of Henry VIII., ib.

CHESS, clergymen prohibited from playing, ii. 32; Kempelen's
Mechanical Chess-player, iii. 284, note.

CHINESE language, i. 267; difficulties of, experienced by P. Bourgeois,
268.

CHOCOLATE, brought from Mexico by the Spaniards, ii. 325; treatise
against the use of, ib.; chocolate-houses in London, ib.

CHRISTMAS Prince at the Universities, ii. 268; account of one at
Oxford, 1607, ib., note.

CHRISTODINS, iii. 81.

CHRONOGRAMS, i. 295.

CHURCHILL abhorred the correction of his MSS., ii. 85.

CICERO a punster, i. 69; a manufacturer of prefaces, 71; a
collector, ii. 396; his projected library, ib.; employs Atticus to
procure books and statues, 397; discovered the tomb of Archimedes,
iii. 409.

CITIES, Free, shook off the yoke of feudal tyranny, i. 184.

CLAIRON, Mademoiselle, anecdote of, i. 251.

CLARENDON House, history of its erection, iii. 189-191; popularly
called Dunkirk House, or Tangier Hall, 189; satire on the building
of, 190; existing remains of, 191, note.

CLASSICAL learning, ii. 332.

CLOVIS, his reasons for adopting Christianity, ii. 433, 434, and
note.

COACHES, introduction of, into England, ii. 36; use of, in France, ib.

COCKERAM, H., his English Dictionary and its new words, iii. 24.

COCK-FIGHTING in Ceylon, i. 188.

COFFEE, introduction of, into Europe, ii, 320; made fashionable at
Paris by the Turkish ambassador, 321; invectives and poetical
satires against, 322-324; advantages of its use, 325.

COFFEE-HOUSES, the first opened at Paris, ii. 321; improvements in,
ib.; the first in England, 322; shut up by proclamation, ib.; and
iii. 379, note.

COKE, or Cook, Sir Edward, his most pleasing book, his Manual, or
_Vade Mecum_, ii. 519; his MSS. seized on his death, ib.; yet to be
recovered, ib., note; his character, 520; his matrimonial alliances,
ib.; his disgrace, 521; disputes between him and his wife, Lady
Hatton, concerning the marriage of his daughter, 523; curious letter
of advice to Lady Hatton, for her defence before the Council, 524;
his daughter married to Lord Villiers, and Coke reinstated, 529; his
daughter's bad conduct, ib.; his death, 530; his vituperative style,
ib.; his conduct to Rawleigh, 531; his abjectness in disgrace, 532;
pricked as sheriff, to exclude him from Parliament, iii. 446; eludes
the appointment by excepting to the oath, 448.

COKE, Mr. Clement, a violent opposition leader in the second
Parliament of Charles I., iii. 498, 499.

COLERIDGE, method pursued by him in his remarkable political
predictions, iii. 268.

COLLECTIONS of books, see LIBRARIES; of engravings, see ENGRAVINGS.

COLLECTOR of books, i. 1-8; defence of himself, as one of the body,
by Ancillon, 10; Aristotle first saluted as a, 53.

COLLECTORS, their propensity to plunder, iii. 316-319.

COLLINS, Anthony, a great lover of books, iii. 16; a free-thinker,
ib.; the friend of Locke, 18; fate of his MSS., 19-23.

COMEDIES, extemporal, ii. 130; opinion of northern critics on, 131;
the amusement of Italy, ib.; practised by the Romans, ib.; Salvator
Rosa's prologue to one, 133; opinions and descriptions of, by
Riccoboni and Gherardi, 134, 135; anecdote of the excellence of,
137; when first introduced in England, 138.

COMFITS universally used under Henry III. of France, i. 221.

COMINES, notice of, i. 263.

COMPOSITION, various modes of literary, ii. 85; correction in,
necessary, ib.; but by some authors impossible, ib.; illustrative
anecdotes, 86; use of models in, 88; various modes of, used by
celebrated authors, 90-92; passion for, exhibited by some authors,
533-546.

CONDE, great Prince of, expert in physiognomy, i. 150.

CONFRERES de la Passion, i. 353.

CONFUSION of words by writers, iii. 65; by the Nominalists and
Realists, 66; in modern philosophy, ib.; between the Antinomians and
their opposers, and the Jansenists and Jesuits, 68; between Abelard
and St. Bernard, ib; other instances, 69; in jurisprudence and
politics, 70; historical instances, 71-73; arising from a change of
meaning in the course of time, 74; serious consequences of, 77;
among political economists, 78; illustrative anecdote of Caramuel, a
Spanish bishop, 79.

CONSTANTINE, motives of his acknowledgment of Christianity, ii. 433.

CONTROVERSIAL writings, acrimony infused into by scholars, i. 153,
and 317.

CONTROVERSY, literary, that of the Nominalists and Realists, i. 312;
between Benedetto Aletino and Constantino Grimaldi, 314; abuse
lavished on each other by learned men in, 308-320; challenges sent
on occasion of, 317.

COOKERY and cooks of the ancients, ii. 245; Epic composed in praise
of, 246; illustrative translations from Athenaeus,247-252; the
dexterity of the cooks, 253; writers on, 254; anecdotes, 255.

CORNEILLE, Peter, died in poverty, i. 32; deficient in conversation,
104; sketch of his life, 428-432.

CORNEILLE, Thomas, impromptu written under his portrait, i. 432.

CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, accused of magic, i. 27; his dog supposed to be a
demon, 28; his belief in demons, iii. 282.

CORNHERT, Theodore, a great advocate for toleration, iii. 253, and
note.

CORPUS CHRISTI plays at Chester, i. 353; at Kendal, iii. 442, and
note.

COSMETICS, use of, by the ladies of the Elizabethan age, i. 227.

COTTON, Sir Robert, his manuscript collections, iii. 316; his
character of Charles I., 456, 457.

COUNTRY gentlemen, their former habits commended, ii. 214; Lord
Clarendon's mention of his grandfather's conduct as one of the body,
ib.; their conduct created a national character, ib.

COUNTRY residence, opinion of Justice Best upon, iii. 363; James I.
recommendation of, 364; proclamations to compel a, ib.; and
proceedings in the Star Chamber against the disobedient, 365-368;
Ode upon, by Sir Richard Fanshaw, 369.

COURT of Wards and Liveries, ii. 158, note.

CRANMER, Jansenist character of, i. 373.

CREATION of the World, precise date of, i. 303.

CREBILLON, his creditors attached the proceeds of his tragedy of
Catiline, i. 405; decree of Louis XV. thereupon, 406.

CRITICS may possess the art of judging without the power of
execution, i. 407; Abbe d'Aubignac and Chapelaine quoted as
instances, ib.

CRITICISM, Periodical, see LITERARY JOURNALS, i. 12-17; sketches of
amongst the ancients, 24-27; effect of, upon authors, 409.

CROMWELL, his great political error, ii. 435; prediction of his
future eminence, iii. 269; reasons for his delay in naming a
successor, 328, 329.

CRUIKSHANK, George, curious error concerning, i. 321, note.

CYRE, the Abbe, an envoy of the Emperor's in Poland, iii. 350;
seized and imprisoned, 360.

D'AGUESSEAU, the Chancellor, his advice to his son on the study of
history, iii. 179.

DANCE of Death, iii. 211-215.

DANTE, origin of his Inferno, disputes on, ii. 421; the entire work
Gothic, ib.; Vision of Alberico supposed to be borrowed, 422; and
probably read by Dante, ib.; his originality vindicated, 423; the
true origin of the Inferno, 427, and note.

DAY-FATALITY, i. 279; lucky and unlucky days, ib., note.

DEATH, anecdotes relating to the death of many distinguished
persons, i. 417-421; book containing the accounts of the deaths of
remarkable persons, compiled by Montaigne, iii. 200; reflections on
death, ib.; anecdotes of the death of some celebrated persons, 201,
202; effect of the continual consideration of, 203; Lady Gethin's
ideas on, 204; conversations of Johnson and Boswell on, ib.;
singular preparations for, by Moncriff, 205; opinions of the
ancients on, 207; personifications of, among the ancients, 208, and
note; Gothic representations of, 209.

DEDICATIONS, curious anecdotes concerning, i. 337-341; price for the
dedication of a play, 338; one to himself, composed by a patron,
ib.; practice of Elkanah Settle with regard to, 339; of the Polyglot
Bible to Cromwell, ib.; altered at the Restoration, ib.; to Cardinal
Richelieu, 340; Dryden's, ib.; ingenious one by Sir Simon Degge,
341.

DE FOE, his honour questioned as to the publication of Robinson
Crusoe, ii. 274; probably struck by Steele's observations on
Selkirk's narration, 276; wrote Robinson Crusoe in comparative
solitude, ib.; vindication of his character, ib.

DE LA CHAMBRE, secret correspondence of, with Louis XIV. on
physiognomy, i. 148.

DELIQUENTS, a convenient revolutionary phrase, iii. 86.

DESCARES, persecuted for his opinions, i. 29; silent in mixed
company, 104; his description of his life in Amsterdam, 113.

DESCRIPTIONS, local, when prolonged tedious, iii. 1; Boileau's
criticisms on, 1, 2; inefficiency of, instanced by a passage from
Pliny, 2; example of elegant, in a sonnet by Francesca de Castello,
3.

DESCRIPTIVE Poems, general remarks on, i. 341; race of, confined to
one object, ib.; titles of, and notices on several of these, 342,
343.

DES MAIZEAUX, a French refugee, iii. 13; his Life of Bayle, 14;
notices of his literary life, 15-18; Anthony Collins bequeaths his
MSS. to, 19; relinquishes them to Collins's widow, 20;
correspondence concerning, 19-22.

DESMARETS, his comedy of the "Visionnaires," ii. 48.

DE SERRES, introduced the cultivation of the mulberry tree and
silk-worm into France, ii. 152; opposition to his schemes, ib.;
supported by Henry IV., ib.; medal struck in honour of his memory,
153.

DESTRUCTION of books and MSS. by the monks, i. 18, 50; account of,
at Constantinople, by the Christians, suppressed, 47; burning of
Talmuds, 48; of Irish and Mexican, ib.; anecdotes regarding, 49; of
Korans, ib.; of the classics, 50; of Bohemian, ib.; in England under
Henry VIII., 51; at Stationers' Hall in 1599, 53; of many of Lady
Mary Wortley Montague's letters, 54; of Anglo-Saxon MSS., 55;
anecdotes concerning the, ib., note; by fire and shipwreck, 56, 57.

D'EWES, Sir Symonds, a sober antiquary, but a visionary, iii. 433;
extracts from his Diary, 434, 435.

DIARY, of a Master of the Ceremonies, ii. 194-206; Shaftesbury's
definition of a, ib.; Colonel Harwood's, 206; kept by Titus, ib.;
Alfred's, 207; Prince Henry's, ib.; Edward VI.'s, ib.; kept by James
II., 208; usually kept by heads of families, 209; kept by Swift and
Horace Walpole, ib.; recommended by Sir Thomas Bodley to Sir Francis
Bacon, ib.; Coke's, ib.; Camden's, 210; of Sir Symonds D'Ewes, ib.;
Baxter's, 211; the thoughtful disposition giving rise to the keeping
of a diary, partaken even by women, ib.; Whitelocke's, 212; Laud's,
213; Lord Clarendon's, 214; practice of keeping one recommended,
215.

DIARIES, Religious, iii. 435.

DICTIONARY of Trevoux, account of its origin and progress, iii. 229;
of Basnage, 230; of Dr. Johnson, 233.

DIGGES, Sir Dudley, a violent opposition leader in Charles I.'s
second parliament, iii. 451; opened the impeachment of Buckingham,
452; committed to the tower, 454.

DILAPIDATIONS of MSS.--See MANUSCRIPTS.

DINNER hour, variations of, in different times, ii. 34, 35.

DINNER parties, Roman limitation of the number of guests at, ii.
246.

DISCOVERIES in literature and science, aptitude in, obtained
by studious men, iii. 408; illustrative anecdotes, 409-413.

DIVINITY, scholastic, i. 60, 61; curious accounts and specimens of,
63-65.

DODD'S Church History of England, iii. 239.

DRAGONS, origin of the old stories of, ii. 311.

DRAMA, anecdotes of the early, ii. 40-43; Mexican, ib.; account of a
curious drama, entitled Technotamia, or the Marriage of the Arts,
43-46; account of one written by a madman, 48.

DRAMATIC works made the vehicle of political feeling, ii. 277; by
the Catholics at the Reformation, ib.; such conduct caused a
proclamation by Edward VI. against English interludes, &c., ib.;
those on the side of the Reformation allowed, and specimens of one,
279-281; proceedings against in the Star Chamber, ib.

DRAMATIC Annals.--See DRAMATIC WORKS. Suppression of the drama
during the civil wars of Charles I., ii. 281; opposite conduct of
actors at that time, and at the period of the French revolution,
282; writers against the stage, 283; custom of boys personating
females, 284; introduction of actresses, 285; Histriomastix, ib.;
all theatres suppressed in 1642, ib.; ordinance against theatres,
286; plays enacted secretly during their suppression, ib.; Cox's
"drolleries," 287; petitions against the drama, 289; the player's
petition in favour of, ib.; secretly acted at Holland House, 291;
the suppression of the drama caused the publication of many MS.
plays, ib.

DRESS, costliness of, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and
Charles I., iii. 405-408.

DRINKING, hard, a borrowed custom among the English, ii. 293; learnt
by them in the Netherlands, ib.; statutes against, ib., note; terms
of, 294, note, 295-298; anecdotes of, 300.

DRUNKARDS, their different characteristics, ii. 299; "A Delicate
Diet for," ib., note; toasts of, 300, and note.

DU CLOS, origin of his fairy tale of Acajou and Zirphile, and
account of his satirical preface to it, ii. 308-310.

DUTCH literature, remarks and strictures on, i. 403-405; satirical
medals, iii. 156-160.

ECHO verses, specimen of, ii. 236.

ECLECTIC School of Art founded by the Caracci, ii. 401, note.

EDWARD the Fourth, to what he owed his crown, i. 261.

EGLISHAW, Dr., his political libels, ii. 357, note; is murdered in
Holland, ib.

ELIZABETH, queen, i. 264; her amours, 265; wished to be thought
beautiful by all the world, ib.; her habits studious, but not of the
gentlest kind, 266; her writing, 267; her education severely
classical, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 264-267; her able
management of her parliaments, ii. 179-186; her conduct regarding
the succession, iii. 328; her treatment of James I., 332; her
proclamation against excess in apparel, 375.

ELIOT, Sir John, a violent opposition leader in Charles I.'s second
Parliament, iii. 452; his speech on the impeachment of Buckingham,
453; committed to the Tower, 454; violent against Buckingham in
Parliament, 469-471; his collection of satires against him, ib.; a
leader in the last Parliament of Charles I., 474-479.

ELOISA, solicited and obtained Abelard's absolution, i. 146; buried
with Abelard, ib.; a fine lady, 147; Pope's reprehensible lines
found in original letters of, 148.

ENCHANTERS, origin of the old stories of, ii. 31.

ENGLISH Poetry, scarcely known in France in 1610, iii. 233;
ignorance of, displayed by Quadrio in his History of Poetry
published in 1750, 236.

ENGRAVING, early origin among the Egyptians, i. 43, note.

ENGRAVINGS, first collection of, under Louis XIV., by Colbert, i. 7;
collecting of engraved portraits originated the work of Granger, 45.

EPITAPH on Cardinal Richelieu, by his protege, Benserade, i. 84; by
celebrated persons on themselves, 417; on Philip I., 471; on Butler,
the author of Hudibras, ii. 548.

ERRATA, remarkable anecdotes concerning, i, 78-82.

ERRONEOUS proper names, given in foreign authors, i. 327, and note.

ETIQUETTE, Court, reflections on its rise and progress, ii. 194;
forms of, observed between the English ambassadors and Cardinal
Richelieu, 195; creation of a master of the ceremonies, 196; absurd
punctilios of, illustrated from the Diary of Sir John Finett,
196-204.

EVELYN, his mode of composition, ii. 88; praise due to him for his
Sylva, 152; his design for arms of Royal Society, 411, and note.

EVENTS which have not happened, ii. 428-438.

EXCOMMUNICATION, by the Popes, dreadful consequences of, ii. 84.

FAIRFAX Papers, curious discovery of, i. 24, note.

FAIRFAX, Sir Thomas, anecdotes of him and his family, ii. 461-474.

FAME, contemned, 66.

FAMILIAR spirits, intercourse with, believed, i. 27, 28, 280.

FANSHAW, Sir Richard, his Ode on the king's commanding the gentry to
reside on their estates, iii. 369-371.

FARCES, ancient, reprehensible, but their pleasantry and humour not
contemptible, i. 358; customary among the Romans after a serious
piece, ii. 131.

FASHIONS.--See LITERARY FASHIONS. Anecdotes of their origin, changes
and extravagances, i. 216-230; introduction of French, 227, 228;
chronicled by Stowe, 225; French, prevailed in the reign of
Charles II., 228; notice of modern, 229; lines condemning the acts
of, 230; expensive in the reigns of Henry VII. and VIII., ii. 36.

FEAST of Fools, ii. 31.

FEAST of Asses, ii. 31.

FELTON, John, the assassin of the Duke of Buckingham, his motives
for the act, ii. 371; his passage to London in triumph, 372; anagram
on his name, 373; his remorse, ib.; his character, 374; his family,
ib., and note; propositions found in his trunk, 375; history of the
remarkable written paper found in his hat, ib., note; answer to a
threat of torture, 376; poem addressed to, 378.

FEMALE beauty and ornaments, opinions and practices of various
nations concerning, i. 211.

FENELON, Jansenist character of, i. 373; his admiration of Homer,
iii. 339.

FEUDAL customs and rights, the barbarous, the first attempts at
organizing society, i. 183; servitude of the land, 184; maiden
rights, ib.; wardship, 185; German lords privileged to rob on the
highway, ib.; anecdote of Geoffrey, Lord of Coventry, ib.; anecdotes
of the abuse of feudal rights and power, 186, 187.

FILBERT, origin of the name, ii. 157, and note.

FILCHERS, literary, iii. 316-319.

FILICAJA, a sonnet of, iii. 197, translated, ib.

FINETT, Sir John, master of the ceremonies to Charles I.--See
ETIQUETTE.

FIRE, in primaeval ages, a signal of respect, ii. 16; worshipped as a
divinity, ib.; a symbol of majesty, ib.; ancient observances
regarding, ib.

FIRE-WORKS, not known to antiquity, ii. 15; their epoch, 17;
originated with the Florentines and Siennese, ib.; their use passes
to Rome, ib.; exhibition of at Paris, 18.

FLAP-DRAGONS, ii. 298.

FLEA, collection of poems on, i. 304.

FLORAL gifts, withheld by the Capitouls of Toulouse from Maynard, a
French poet, i. 437.

FLOGGING, a discussion on, occasioned Roger Ascham to write his
Schoolmaster, i. 87.

FLOWERS and Fruits, praise of the introducers of exotic, ii. 151;
Peirese and Evelyn, ib.; Hartlib, 153; enthusiasm evinced by the
transplanters of, ib.; notice of many introduced by particular
persons, 154; origin of, distinguished by their names, 155; worthy
pride of introducers of, 156, 157.

FORGERIES and fictions, political and religious, iii. 144;
historical instances, 145-150; literary, iii. 304-319.

FORMOSA, Psalmanazar's pretended history of, i. 136, note.

FOSCOLO, Ugo, his opinion on the titles of Italian Academies, ii.
490.

FOURMONT, the Oriental scholar, anecdote of, iii. 396.

FOX'S Acts and Monuments, iii. 239.

FRIENDSHIPS of literary men, interesting anecdotes of, ii. 55-59.

FRANKLIN, Dr., experiments with lightning, ii. 413.

FRENCH REVOLUTION a commentary on the English, iii. 489.

FRONDEURS, organized by Cardinal de Retz, iii. 83.

FUGGERS, a wealthy family of merchants, i. 6, and note.

FUNERAL honours paid to their kings by the Goths and Huns, i. 196.

GALILEO, condemned to disavow his own opinions, i. 28; his
annotations on Tasso, ii. 444.

GAMESTERS, memoirs of celebrated, i. 190.

GAMING, a universal passion, i. 187; treatises on, ib.; among the
nations of the East, 188, 189; the ancients, ib.; picture of a
gambling-house in 1731, ib.

GARDENS, mediaeval, ii. 154, note; gradual introduction of fruits and
flowers, 151-157.

GAS, origin of the word, iii. 282.

GAYTON, Edmund, his pleasant notes upon Don Quixote and other works,
i. 139, note.

GEMARA.--See TALMUD.

GENIUS, inequalities of, i. 88; men of, deficient in conversation,
103; modern persecution of, 197.

GERBIER, Sir Balthazar, a confidential agent of the Duke of
Buckingham, ii. 358; notices of his Memoirs, 359-369; his account
of the preparations for the siege of Rochelle, 368.

GESTURES significant, used by the ancients and by modern
Neapolitans, ii. 119, note.

GETHIN, Lady Grace, her statue in Westminster Abbey, ii. 270; her
papers collected and published, under the title of Reliquiae
Gethinianae, 271; character of the book, ib.; Congreve's laudatory
lines on, ib.; its authenticity doubted, 272; her considerations on
the choice of a husband, 273.

GHOSTS, theory of, iii. 287, 288.

GIANNONE, his History of Naples, iii. 184; threatened by the
Inquisition, 185; died in the citadel of Turin, ib.

GIBBON, his mode of study useful to students, ii. 89.

GILL, Alexander, committed by the Star Chamber, ii. 373.

GLOVES, supposed to be mentioned in the 108th Psalm, i. 235; account
of, by Xenophon, ib.; mentioned by several ancient writers, ib.; use
of, universal in the 9th century, 236; regulations concerning, ib.;
employed on great and solemn occasions, such as investitures, ib.;
Abbots forbidden to use, ib.; blessing of, 237; deprivation of, a
mark of degradation, ib.; challenging by, ib.; used for secret
correspondence, ib., note; use of, in carrying the hawk, 238;
formerly forbidden to judges, ib.; singular anecdote concerning,
ib.; ancient, in the Denny family, 239.

GLOVE-MONEY, i. 238.

GOFF, Thomas, a tragic poet, specimens of his works, ii. 42.

GONDOLIERS of Venice, description of their chanting the verses of
Tasso and Ariosto, i. 388.

GOUGH, the antiquary, anecdote of, iii. 319.

GRAY, loss of his MSS., ii. 451.

GROTIUS, account of his life and studies, i. 129, 130.

GRUB-STREET Journal, extract from, ii. 492; its authors, ib., note.

GUELPHS and Ghibellines, iii. 89.

GUEUX, iii. 81.

GUIBERT, foretold the French Revolution, iii. 300.

GUICCIARDINI, his history posthumous, iii. 180; first editions of
his works castrated, ib.; continuation of his history by Adriani,
ib.

GUILT, trials and modes of proof of, in superstitious ages, i.
161-166.

GULLIVER'S Travels, account of the first edition, i. 320, note.

HAIR, early taste in the colour of, ii. 33, and note.

HALIFAX, Marquis of, his MS. memoirs suppressed, ii. 447.

HALL, Bishop, his belief in witches, iii. 293, and note.

HALLEY, anecdote of his perseverance and sagacity, iii. 411.

HAMILTON, Elizabeth, her projected series of comparative biography,
iii. 424.

HANS CARVEL, origin of Prior's story of, i. 111.

HARDI, a French tragic author, ii. 41.

HARLEQUIN, his Italian origin, ii. 117; turned into a magician by
the English, ib.; the character essentially Italian, 118; treatises
written on it, 121; a Roman mime, ib. and note; his classical
origin, 123, note; his degeneration, 125; his renovation under the
hand of Goldoni, ib.; improved into a wit in France, ib.

HARTLIBB, Samuel, a collector and publisher of manuscripts on
horticulture and agriculture, ii. 153.

HARVEY, his discovery of the circulation of the blood, iii. 412.

HAZLERIGG, Sir Arthur, "an absurd bold man," a violent leader of the
Rump Parliament, iii. 487.

HEART of a lover, story of, i. 233, 234.

HEAVY hours of literary men, i. 392.

HELL, Purgatory, and Heaven, topographical descriptions of, i. 202;
treatises on, 204, 205.

HEMON DE LA FOSSE, a modern Polytheist, executed in 1503, i. 216.

HENRIETTA, queen of Charles I., her character, ii. 337; anecdote
illustrative of, ib.; after the Restoration, 338; various
descriptions of her person, ib.; her contract with the Pope, 339;
account of her journey to England on her marriage, 340; her French
establishment, 341; anecdote of her confessor's conduct, 342; the
dismissal of her French attendants, 345; the amount of her supposed
influence over her husband, 348.

HENRY the Seventh, anecdote of, ii. 10.

HENRY the Eighth, anecdote of, ii. 10; his proclamation against
reading the Bible in English, iii. 373, note.

HENRY, prince, son of James I., anecdote of, iii. 186-194.

HENRY, the English historian, loose and general in his references,
ii. 418.

HERETICS, a classification of, i. 350.

HERMIPPUS REDIVIVUS, a curious jeu-d'-esprit, i. 320.

HEYLIN, a popular writer, died in 1662, iii. 215; his rival
biographers, 216-221; his History of the Puritans and Presbyterians,
239.

HIGH SHERIFF'S Oath, exceptions taken to, by Sir Edward Coke, iii.
446.

HISTORY, of events which have not happened, a good title for a
curious book, ii. 428; speculative history of the battle of
Worcester, had it terminated differently, 429; a history of this
kind in Livy, ib.; subjects for, 430-438.

HISTORY of New Words.--See NEOLOGY. Of suppressed opinion, iii.
150-163; of writing masters, 167-177.

HISTORIANS, remarks on the infidelities of, i. 191; Italian,
commended, iii. 177; notices of the most celebrated, 180-186; wrote
for posterity, 182, 183; fate of Giannone, who published in his
life-time, 185; observations on, 186.

HOLYDAY, Barton, author of the comedy "The Marriage of the Arts,"
ii. 43.

HOME, the author of the tragedy of "Douglas," persecuted for
composing it, i. 197.

HOMER, notice of his detractors, i. 24; profound knowledge of
history, geography, arts, sciences, and surgery ascribed to, 303.

HUDIBRAS, attacks upon Butler, the author of, ii. 491; various
accounts of the original of the character, 492; indecency avoided
in, 493; epitaph on the author of, ib.; attacks on Butler's
character, 494; and vindication of, 495.

HUGH of Lincoln, legend of, iii. 145, note.

HUGUENOT, origin of the term, iii. 82.

HUME, his carelessness in research, iii. 368.

HUMPHREY, Duke, origin of the phrase "dining with," ii. 169, note.

HURD, Bishop, his proposed book of parallels, iii. 425.

HYMNS set to popular tunes, ii. 149, note.

IDLENESS punished among the ancients, i. 199, 200.

IKON BASILIKE; its probable effects had it appeared a week sooner,
ii. 435.

ILIAD, in a nut-shell, i. 275.

IMAGE-BREAKERS, proclamation by Elizabeth against, iii. 375, 376.

IMITATORS, masterly, i. 258, 261.

IMITATIONS, of Cicero, i. 67; Le Brun's religious Virgil and Ovid,
ib.; Sannazarius's poem _de Partu Virginis_, 68; Arruntius an
ancient imitator of Sallust, ib.; modern, ib.; Arabian anecdote, 69.

IMITATIONS and Similarities, Poetical, various and curious instances
of, ii. 92-110.

INDEPENDENTS, their intolerance, iii. 85.

INDEX, of prohibited books, ii. 216; Expurgatory, ib.; Congregation
of the, ib.; reprinted by the heretics with annotations, 217; effect
of, in raising the sale of books, 219.

INDEXES, Fuller's observations on, i. 72.

INFLUENCE of a name, ii. 65-75.

INGHIRAMI, and forged Etruscan antiques, iii. 307.

INIGO JONES, his excellent machinery for exhibiting masques, iii.
12, 13.

INK, inferiority of modern, ii. 29; various kinds anciently used,
30.

INQUISITION, establishment of, at Toulouse, i. 166; in Spain, 167;
first proceeding of, ib.; taciturnity of the Spaniards attributed
to, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 168-170; history of, by Orobio, 167.

INTEMPERANCE in study, i. 8.

INTRODUCERS of exotic flowers, fruits, &c., ii. 151, 157.

IRELAND, W. H., his Shakesperian forgeries, i. 137, note.

ISABELLA-COLOUR, origin of term, i. 217.

ITALIANS, their national genius dramatic, ii. 118.

ITALIAN HISTORIANS, iii. 177-186.

ITALIC letter, introduction of, i. 77; formerly called the Aldine, 78.

JACQUERIE, iii. 82.

JAMES the First gave credit to physiognomy, i. 149; injustice done
to his character for wit, 156; distinguished as Queen James, 462;
his ambassador's speech, 463; _cleanliness_ of his court, ib.; his
effeminacy, ib.; his general character, ib.; his imbecility in his
amusements, 464; his pedantry, 465; account of his death, 466;
results of the author's further inquiry into the character of, 467;
his conduct regarding his son's expedition into Spain, ii. 2; his
objections to Laud's promotion, iii. 297; his character vilified,
333; his attention to the education of his children, ib.; his
conduct towards his wife, 334-337.

JAMES the Second, kept a diary, ii. 214.

JAMET L'AINE, proposes to edit a new edition of the Dictionary of
Trevoux, iii. 232.

JANSENISTS, the Methodists of France, i. 373; cause a Biographical
Dictionary to be compiled, devoted to their cause, in opposition to
that of L'Avocat, ib.; specimens of this dictionary, 373, 374; their
curses never "lapsed legacies," 375.

JERUSALEM, Arabic chronicle of, only valuable from the time of
Mahomet, i. 191; several portions translated by Longuerue, ib.

JESUITS, a senate of, sent by Sigismund, King of Sweden, to
represent him at Stockholm, destroyed by stratagem, i. 231-233.

JESUIT'S snuff poisoned, ii. 442, note.

JEWS of York, history of their self-destruction, ii. 75-79.

JOCULAR PREACHERS, i. 251-258.

JODELLE, Etienne, the first author of French tragedy, ii. 40.

JOHNSON, Dr., his original Memorandum of Hints for the Life of Pope,
ii. 380-382.

JONSON, Ben, Fuller's character of, i. 380; his arrogance, 381; his
Ode on the ill reception of his play of "The New Inn" quoted, 382;
Owen Feltham's Ode in reply, 383; Randolph's Consolatory Ode to,
385; his poem on translation, ii. 501; employed on court masques,
iii. 6-8, 12.

JOSEPH VELLA, pretended to have recovered seventeen of the lost
books of Livy, i. 135; patronized by the king of Naples, ib.;
discovered and imprisoned, 136.

JOURNALS.--See LITERARY JOURNALS.

JOURNALIST, Public, indispensable acquirements of a, i. 16.

JUDICIAL Combats, anecdotes of, i. 162, 163.

KINGS, remark of St. Chrysostom on, i. 173; willing to be aided, but
not surpassed, 174; anecdotes of, ib.; observations of the Duke of
Alva and of Dr. Johnson on, 176; divine honours bestowed on, 179;
dethroned, 181; anecdotes of, and their families, in misfortune,
181, 182; descendants of, found among the dregs of the populace in
conquered countries, 183; funeral honours paid to, by the Goths and
Huns, 196.

KIRK, Colonel, original of the horrid tale of, related by Hume, iii.
148.

KISSING hands, customary among the ancients as an act of adoration,
ii. 81; used by the primeval bishops, ib.; declined with Paganism,
ib.; prevailed at Rome, 82; an essential duty under the emperors,
ib.; practised in every known country, ib.

KNOX, John, his Machiavelian politics, iii. 242; his opinions on
toleration, 251; his predictions, 277, 278.

LAMBE, Dr., a magician, murdered in the streets of London, ii. 364;
fine and assessment on City companies in consequence, ib., note.

LA MOTHE LE VAYER, a great quoter, ii. 417.

LAMPS, Perpetual, i. 243; possibility of, ib.; Rosicrucians, ib.

LA RUE, i. 257.

LATIMER, Bishop, curious sermons by, i. 256, and note; his youthful
history, ii. 39, note.

LATOUR DU CHATEL, a neglected contributor to the Dictionary of
Trevoux, procures the mediation of the French government, iii. 231.

LAUDER, William, pretended discovery of plagiarisms of Milton, i.
137, and note.

LAUREATS, sketch of the history of, i. 454; ancient, ib.; Petrarch
the first modern, ib.; degrees granted to, ib.; formula employed in
granting the degree of, 455; their honours disgraced in Italy, ib.;
Querno crowned in a joke, ib.; honours lavished on, by Maximilian
I., 456; honours still conferred on, in Germany, ib.; unknown among
the French, ib.; appointment of, in Spain, ib.; in England never
solemnly crowned, 457; salary of, in England, ib.

LAZZARONI, iii. 82.

LAZZI, dramatic side-play, ii. 128.

LEAGUE, the, its pretext and its cause, iii. 142, 143.

LEARNED men, persecution of, i. 27; poverty of, 29; imprisonment of,
35; amusements of, 38.

LE CLERC, antagonist of Bayle, and author of three Bibliotheques,
the Universelle et Historique, Choisie, and Ancienne et Moderne, i.
15.

LE FEVRE, Nicholas, edition of his works by Lenglet du Fresnoy, iii.
249, and note.

LEGENDS, origin of, i. 89; Golden, 90; of the Seven Sleepers, 91;
account of several, 92, 93; Golden, abounds in religious
indecencies, 366; of St. Mary the Egyptian, ib.

LEIBNETZ, his admiration of Barclay's Argenis, iii. 339; anecdote
of, iii. 455.

LENGLET DU FRESNOY, his "Methode pour etudier l'Histoire," iii. 221;
his peculiar character, ib.; history of his Methode, 222, 224, and
note, ib.; his literary history, 224; a believer in alchymy, 225;
his political adventures, 227.

LE KAIN, anecdote of, i. 251.

LEO the Tenth, motive of his projected alliance against the Turks,
iii. 142.

L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger, a strong party writer for Charles II., i.
159; his AEsop's Fables, 160.

LETTRES DE CACHET, invented by Father Joseph, confessor to
Richelieu, iii. 196.

LIBEL, singular means used to discover the author of a, ii. 314.

LIBELS on the Duke of Buckingham, ii. 365-370.

LIBERTY of the Press, restrictions on, ii. 216-227; its freedom did
not commence till 1694, 227; reflections on, 228.--See CENSORS.

LIBRARIES, i. 1; celebrated Egyptian and Roman, 1-3; public, in
Italy and England, 3, 4; in France and Germany, 6, 7; use of lights
in, 7; that of the Palatine Apollo destroyed by Pope Gregory
VIII., 50; in Bohemia, destroyed by the Jesuits, ib.; destruction
of, under Henry VIII. ib.; astronomical, in the ark of Noah, 303;
Irish, before the Flood, ib.; Adams's, ib.; modern opinion on their
utility, iii. 345.

LICENSERS of the Press.--See CENSORS.

LIGHTS, in public libraries, ordered in France by Charles V., i. 6;
objection to, 7.

LILLY, the astrologer, notices of, i. 280-283; his great work, 282;
an exquisite rogue, ib.

LIPOGRAMMATIC works, i. 293.

LIPSIUS, Justus, his opinions on toleration, iii. 253.

LITERARY Blunders, a pair of lexicographical, i. 305; instances of
curious, 320-327.

LITERARY Composition, ii. 85-92.

LITERARY Controversy, specimens of Luther's mode of managing, i.
308; Calvin's conduct of, 309; Beza imitates Calvin's style in, 310;
opinion of Bishop Bedell on, ib.; conduct of the fathers in, ib.;
grossness used in, 311; of the Nominalists and Realists, 312.

LITERARY Fashions, ii. 113; applause given to a work supposed to be
written by a celebrated man, ib.; notices of various, ib.; love all
the fashion, 114; Spenser's Faerie Queen became one, ib.; the
translation of Greek tragedies, a, ib.; of the seventeenth century,
115; of the time of Charles I., ib.; of Charles II., and of more
modern times, ib.

LITERARY Follies, instances of various in the fantastical
composition of verses, i. 293-307; strange researches made in
antediluvian times to be classed with, 301-303; anecdote of a
malicious one, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 301-307.

LITERARY Forgeries, by Dr. Berkenhout, a letter from Peele to
Marlow, i. 380; by George Steevens, iii. 297; history of one, 299,
300; by Horace Walpole, 302; anecdote of Steevens and Gough, 303,
304, and notes; by De Grassis, ib.; by Annius of Viterbo, 305, and
mischievous consequences of, ib.; Sanchoniathon, 306; of Etruscan
antiquities, ib.; the false Decretals of Isidore, 308; in the
prayer-book of Columbus, ib.; in the Virgil of Petrarch, ib.; by the
Duke de la Valliere, 309; by Lauder, 310; by Psalmanazar, 311.

LITERARY Friendships, ii. 55-58.

LITERARY Impositions, curious anecdotes of, i. 260, 261.

LITERARY Impostures, i. 132; by Varillas, the French historian, ib.;
supposed by Gemelli Carreri, but afterwards discovered to be fact,
ib.; Du Halde's account of China compiled, 133; Damberger's Travels,
ib.; titles of works announced by the historiographer Paschal, his
works at his death amounting to six pages, ib.; by Gregorio Leti,
ib.; forgeries of Testaments Politiques, ib.; pretended
translations, 134; Travels of Rabbi Benjamin, ib.; by Annius
Viterbo, ib.; by Joseph Vella, who pretended to have recovered
seventeen of the lost books of Livy, 135; by Medina Conde, 136; by
George Psalmanazar, ib.; Lauder's, 137; Ireland's, ib.; by a learned
Hindu, ib.; anecdotes concerning, 138.

LITERARY Journals, i. 12; originated with the Journal de Scavans, by
Denis de Sallo, counsellor in the Parliament of Paris, 13; Nouvelles
de la Republique des Lettres, published by Bayle in 1684--continued
by Bernard, and afterwards by Basnage in his Histoire des Ouvrages
de Scavans, 15; Le Clerc's Bibliotheques Universelle et Historique,
Choisie, and Ancienne et Moderne, ib.; Apostolo Zeno's Giornale de
Litterati d'Italia, ib.; Bibliotheque Germanique, 16; Bibliotheque
Britannique, ib.; Journal Britannique by Dr. Maty, ib.; Review
conducted by Maty, jun., 16; Memoire des Trevoux, ib.; Journal
Litteraire, ib.; Memoirs of Literature and Present State of the
Republic of Letters, the best early English, ib.; monthly, ib.

LOLLARDS, oath against them enforced upon sheriffs until reign of
Charles I., iii. 447; repealed by the political feeling of Coke, ib.

LONGOLIUS, or Longueil, composed a biographical parallel between
Budaeus and Erasmus, iii. 425.

LORENZO DE' MEDICI, effect of his death, ii. 436.

LOUIS the Eighth, singular anecdote of the cause of his death, ii.
32.

LOUIS the Eleventh, anecdote of, ii. 10, 11.

LOUIS the Twelfth, cause of his death, ii. 34.

LOUIS the Fourteenth, chose his courtiers by the rules of
physiognomy, i. 148; some remarks on his real character, ii, 449;
passages suppressed in his instruction to the Dauphin, 450.

LOUIS L'ABE, the Aspasia of Lyons, i. 362; wrote the morality of
"Love and Folly," ib.

LOUPS-GAROUX, iii. 293.

LUCULLUS, description of the library of, i. 3.

LUKE, Sir Samuel, the true prototype of Hudibras, ii. 491, and note.

LUNSFORD, Colonel, imputed a cannibal, iii. 149, note.

LUTHER, Martin, remarks on, and extracts from, his controversial
writings, i. 308, 309; caricatures on, 309, note; Jansenist
character of, 374; anecdote of, from Guicciardini, ii. 479, 480; his
political conduct, iii. 144.

LUYNES, Duc de, his origin, ii. 11.

LUXURY, in dress, an old dramatist's opinion on, iii. 400; doctrines
of political economy concerning, 401; excessive amongst our
ancestors, ib.; the Pas de Sandricourt, 402-405; ruinous in the
reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and Charles I., 405.

MABBE, James, translator of "Guzman" and "Celestina," Spanish plays,
ii. 501; Ben Jonson's verses in praise of, ib.

MACHIAVEL discovered the secret of comparative history, iii. 179.

MACKENZIE, Sir George, notice of his Treatise on Solitude, ii. 50.

MAD-SONG, specimen of an ancient, ii. 315.

MAGIC, instances of many learned men accused of, i. 27-29; Solomon
accounted an adept in, 122.

MAGIUS, Charles, a noble Venetian, iii. 136; his travels and
adventures contained in a volume of paintings, ib.; detailed
description of, 137-141.

MAGLIABECHI, Anthony, celebrated for his great knowledge of books,
i. 394; description of him and his mode of life, 394-397.

MAII, the discoverer of Cicero's treatise _de Republica_, i. 18, and
note.

MAILLARD, Oliver, a famous cordelier and preacher, i. 252.

MAINE, Duc de, instituted the Journal de Trevoux, iii. 230; and the
Dictionary of Trevoux, ib.

MAINTENON, Madame de, marries Scarron, i. 424; corrects his style,
ib.

MALHERBE, his love of Horace, iii. 340.

MALIGNANTS, iii. 86.

MAN of one book, iii. 337-340.

MANDRAKE, i. 246.

MANNERS, anecdotes of European, ii. 30-39; domestic, among the
English, 42-44.