Authors, attacks on, 240, 417, 468.
Avarice, 311.

Abel Drugger, 298.

Abercrombie, James, 198.

Aberdeen, 184, 362.

Allen, Edmund, the printer, 129,
245, 328, 330, 373, 456-7, 500,
548.

Althorp, Lord (second earl Spen-
cer), 434.

America and Americans, 233, 353,
354, 380, 392, 452, 495, 518.

Ancestry, 185, 225.
Anne, Queen, 7.
Apostolical Ordination, 174.
Apparitions. See Spirits.
Arbuthnot, Dr. John, 110.
Argyle, Archibald, third Duke of,
42, 313.

Ashbourne, Johnson and Boswell

visit it, 284-6, 326-55; men-
tioned, 542.

Astley, the equestrian, 431.
Aston, Miss (Mrs.), 280, 282.
Aston, 'Molly', 280.

'Athol porridge', 450.

Auchinleck, 125, 341.

Auchinleck, Lord, 318, 474.

Bacon, Francis, 50, 186, 350, 514.
Ballads, 200.

Balloon, account of a, 543, 545.
Banks, Sir Joseph, 132, 559.
Barber, Francis, Johnson's negro
servant, 52-4, 56, 84-5, 138,
156, 184, 250, 256, 355, 415,
518, 552, 557.

Baretti, Joseph, 154, 171, 198,
258-9, 271, 288, 336, 416.
Barnard, Rev. Dr., dean of Derry,
afterwards Bishop of Killaloe,
232, 317, 459, 465.

Barretier, Philip, Life by John-
son, 35.

Barrington, Hon. Daines, 292,
507.

Barry, James, 499, 507.
Bartolozzi, Francis, 324.
Bath, 302-3.

Bathurst, Dr., 43, 52.

Bathurst, Lord Chancellor, 329.
Baxter, Rev. Richard, 220, 485.
Bayle, his Dictionary, 110.
Beattie, Dr. James, 182-3, 460.

534, 535; his Hermit, 486.
Beauclerk Hon. Topham, 59-61,
209, 260, 412, 438, 445, 450;
death, 434; dinners and suppers
at his house, 212, 237, 423-5;
Johnson's affection for him,
439, 460, 483; Johnson's alter-
cations with, 375-6, 421-2.
Beauclerk, Lady Diana, wife of
Topham Beauclerk, 214, 239.

Beauty, of women, 470.
Bedlam, Johnson visits it, 255.
Bellamy, Mrs., the actress, 79.
Bentley, Dr., 16, 442, 443, 496.
Berkeley, Bishop, 130.

Betty Broom, 506.
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 165-6.
Binning, Lord, 194, 402.
Biography, 1-3, 110, 149, 187,
270, 312, 333, 547.

Blackstone, Sir William, 18, 421.
Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, 96.
Blaney, Mrs. Elizabeth, 545.
Blank verse, 111.

Blenheim Park, Johnson visits it,
271.

Blue-stocking Clubs, 462.
Boccage, Mme. du, 259.
Boileau, 30.

Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, first
Viscount, 408, 410; Johnson's
criticisms on, 67, 80.
Bolingbroke, Lady, 397.
Bon-mots, 397.

Books, abundance of modern, 403;
death, leaving one's books at,
391; getting boys to have en-
tertainment from them, 422;
knowledge of the world through
books, 27; looking over their
backs in a library, 253; not read
willingly, 497; seldom read when
given away, 209; variety of them
to be kept about a man, 349.

Booksellers, 75, 245, 322, 468.
Boscawen, Hon. Mrs., 402, 458.
Boscovich, Père, 179, 261
Bosville, Mrs., 188.

Boswell, Sir Alexander, Baronet,

Boswell's eldest son, 318.

Boswell, Dr., 115, 289.

Boswell, James. Chief Events and
Works: 1760, first visit to
London, 91-2; 1762, second
visit to London, 92; gets to
know Johnson, 94; visits Lon-
don, 138-43; visits London and
Oxford, 152-5; Account of Cor-
sica, 140; 1769, visits London,
151, 320; first visit to Streat-
ham, 159-76; attends the
Stratford Jubilee, 162; 1772,
visits London, 184-97; 1773,
visits London, 199-226; elected
a member of the Literary Club,
214; tour to the Hebrides, 226;
1775, visits London, 232-57;
visits Wilton and Mamhead in
Devonshire, 255; visits Lon-
don, 263-6, 287-315; becomes

494, 553, 559; Letter on the
Affairs of America, 345; his bon-
mots, 397; his universal knowl-
edge, 318, 442, 444, 478, 513;
his appreciation and criticisms
of Johnson, 528; Johnson's
opinions of him, 181, 193, 271,
418, 444, 453.

Burke, Richard, junior (Edmund
Burke's son), 132, 497, 545.
Burnet, Gilbert, Bishop of Salis-
bury, 349.

Burney, Dr. Charles, 71, 77, 80,
97, 261, 458, 471, 504, 548; his
anecdotes of Johnson, 261-3,
471.

Burney, Dr. Charles (jun.), 549.
Burney, Frances (Mme. D'Ar-

blay), 499, 513.
Burney, Mrs., 492.
Burton, Robert, 179, 268.

Bute, third Earl of, 88, 89, 314,
427, 466, 469.

Butler, Samuel, Hudibras, 300.
Butter, Dr., 286, 333, 337, 464,
551.

Cadell, Thomas, 323.
Cambridge, 146.

Cambridge, R. O., 251, 253, 364.
Camden, Lord, 390.

Campbell, Dr. John, 233, 263, 363.
Campbell, Dr. Thomas, 241-3,

246.

Campbell, Mungo, 347.

Cant, clearing the mind of, 498.
Cards, 294, 418.

Careless, Mrs. Johnson's first

love, 275-6.
Carmichael, Miss, 356, 415.

Carte, Thomas, History of Eng-
land, 245.

Carter, Miss Elizabeth, (Mrs.),
339, 458.

Catherine II, 514.

Cave, Edward, 28-9, 56, 191, 554.
Chambers, Catherine, 150.
Chambers, Sir Robert, 151, 224-5.
Chamier, Andrew, 131, 365.

Charlemont, first Earl of, 121,

212, 412, 450.
Charles I, 478.
Charles II, 59, 117, 149, 243.
Charles XII, of Sweden, 371.
Charlotte, Queen, 211.

Chastity, 154.

563

Chatham, William Pitt, Earl of,
31, 197.
Chatsworth, Boswell visits it, 355;
Johnson visits it, 542-5.
Chatterton, Thomas, 303.
Chesterfield, fourth Earl of, 200,

328, 423, 535; Plan of the
Dictionary, addressed to, 41, 62;
seeks to flatter Johnson, 62-3;
Johnson's severe reply, 63-4;
470; Letters, 304; Miscellane-
ous Works, 411.

Chichester, 476.

Children, 297; method of rearing
them, 173; prematurely wise,

262.

China, wall of, 372-3.
Cholmondeley, Mrs., 179, 367, 394.
Christianity, dictates of, 379;
differences chiefly in forms;
102, 184, 347; evidences for it,
102, 121, 139, 142, 347; immor-
tality its great doctrine, 347.
Church of England, 126, 243.
Churchill, Charles, 103, 107.
Cibber, Colley, 100, 150, 169, 235,

242, 343, 505.
Cibber, Theophilus, edits the
Lives of the Poets, 42.
Cibber, Mrs. (wife of Theophi-

lus), 45, 169.

Claret, for boys, 419, 451.
Clarke, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 16, 442.
Clergy, the, 386, 450.

Clive, Lord, 404, 428.

Clive, Mrs., the actress, 437, 505.
Cobb, Mrs., 280.

Cobham, Lord 410.

Cock-Lane Ghost, 103, 372.
Coke, Lord, 186.

Collins, William, 70.

Colman, George, the elder, 132,

234, 395, 439, 441, 559.

Colson, Rev. J., 25.
Comedy, distinguished from farce,

170; its great end, 211.

Commerce, 202, 249.
Community of goods, 219.
Composition, fine passages to be
struck out, 213; man writing
from his own mind, 245.
Comus, Johnson's Prologue to,
51.

Condescension, 436.