Brevity, misplaced, 98.
Bright, John, quoted, 117, 128.
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 11.
Browning, Robert, Carlyle on,
89; quoted, 115.

Bruyère, quoted, 75, 89, 95, 121,
253.

Bryant, quoted, 7, 60, 133, 313.
Buckle, Thomas, quoted, 70.
Bulwer, quoted, 7, 27, 67, 70, 91,
109, 135, 297.
Bunyan, quoted, 7, 120.
Burke, quoted, 36, 99, 132, 274.
Burlesque, 250.
Burns, quoted, 264.
Butler, Bishop, quoted, 199.
Butler, Samuel, quoted, 253.
Byron, quoted, 26, 30, 37, 66, 70,
100, 130, 133, 135, 242, 266,
314, 322, 323; characterization
of, 142.

Comedy, 331.

Comma, rules for use of, 132.
Complete, whole, entire, 75.
Composition, practice essential to
excellence in, 149; Franklin
on, 178.
Conciseness, defined, 84; faulty,
85; relations of, to energy, 97;
violations of, 100.
Congreve, 132.

Connectives, Coleridge on, 88; ex-
cess of, 100.

Consistency, foolish pride in, 142.
Conway, M.D., quoted, 80.
Cousin, quoted, 237.
Cowley, quoted, 87.

Cowper, quoted, 27, 41, 309, 314,
317.

Crabbe, quoted, 75.

Criticism, true, 271; Pope's ideal
of, 272.

Crombie, quoted, 120.
Cromwell, quoted, 7, 138; char-
acterization of, 87.
Curran, quoted, 253.
Curves, rules for punctuational,

135.

Darwin, Charles, quoted, 282.
Dash, rules for use of, 134.
Days of the Week, origin of names
of, 51.

Debater, the, should be true to
his convictions, 303.
Deduction, defined, 195; illus-
trated, 197.

Definition, logical, 191.

De Mille, James, quoted, 139.
De Quincey, quoted, 9, 139, 165,
268.

Description, defined, 178; object-
ive and subjective, 179; pano-
ramic, 180; scenic, 181; order
of, 182; Scott's method of, 183;
aids to, 183; material, 184;
personal, 184; novelist's power
of, 290.

Dickens, quoted, 115, 261.
Dickinson, Anna, quoted, 139.
Diction, figures of, 17; poetical,
308.

Diffuseness, when proper, 98.

Gibbon, quoted, 24, 90, 160.
Gilder, quoted, 324.
Gladstone, quoted, 308.
Glass, essay on, 211.

God, Carlyle on the justice of, 8.
Goethe, quoted, 6, 7, 36, 59, 153,
231, 308.

Goldsmith, quoted, 67, 90, 133,
169, 250.

Gough, quoted, 57.
Gould, E. S., quoted, 79.
Grammar, relation of, to rhet-
oric, 2.

Gray, quoted, 309.

Greeley, Horace, quoted, 12.
Greg, W. R., quoted, 68.

Hall, Robert, quoted, 16, 328.
Halleck, quoted, 13.
Hamilton, Gail, quoted, 7.
Hamilton, Sir W., quoted, 14,
75, 129, 159, 189, 241.
Happiness, conditions of, 15.
Harmony, an element of ele-
gance, 111.

Haven, Dr. E. O., quoted, 93,

94.

Hawthorne, quoted, 80, 83, 91,
92, 107.

Hazlitt, quoted, 126, 132, 137,
138.

Helps, Arthur, quoted, 103, 115.
Henry, Patrick, quoted, 135.
Hepburn, A. D., quoted, 119.
Herrick, quoted, 124, 305.
Hill, A. S., quoted, 201.
Hobbes, quoted, 325.

Holland, Dr., quoted, 6, 46, 135.
Holmes, Dr., quoted, 68, 72, 119,

133.

Homer, quoted, 112, 213.
Hood, quoted, 140, 252, 318.
Horace, quoted, 1, 154, 305.
Hugo, Victor, quoted, 182.
Hume, quoted, 66, 90, 102, 105,
116, 117.

Humor, characteristics of, 255;
American, 258; and wit, 259.
Huxley, quoted, 279, 280.
Hyperbole, 38.

Ideals, influence of, 221, 326;
progressive, 224.

Imagery, perspicuity of, 88; pro-
motive of energy, 105; of ele-
gance, 113.

Imagination, chapter on, 215;
defined, 216; varieties of, 217;
importance of, 219; practical
uses of, 220; culture of, 221;
power of, in early ages, 284.
Incidents, invention of, in fiction,
290.

Induction, in exposition, 190;
defined, 196; illustrated, 197.
Influence, 51.

Innuendo, 36.
Interrogation, 41.

Interrogation-point, rules for use
of, 130.
Interruptio, 25,

Invention, discriminated from
discovery, 75; defined, 154; of
subject, 154; of material, 158;
of order, 162; of introduction,
166; of conclusion, 167; of
transitions, 168; exercises in,
173; in fiction, 290.
Inversion, 27.

Interludes, the, 335.
Irony, 31, 256, 261.

Irving, Washington, 67, 61, 132,
256.

Jeffrey, quoted, 92, 231, 239.
Johnson, quoted, 13, 58, 67, 82,
118, 134.

Jones, Sir W., quoted, 59.
Jonson, quoted, 3.
Joubert, quoted, 231.
Junius, quoted, 95.

Kant, quoted, 6.
Kames, Lord, quoted, 109, 230.
Keats, quoted, 59, 134, 216, 237,
238, 247.

Kingsley, Charles, quoted, 67, 68,
93, 122, 123, 135, 192.

Labor, necessity of, 3.
Lamb, quoted, 8, 123, 137.
Landor, quoted, 81, 267.
Langlande, quoted, 26, 320.

Lanier, Sidney, quoted, 218.
Lavater, quoted, 295.
Lecky, quoted, 101.

Letter-writing, chapter on, 263;
chief requisites of, 267.
Lewes, quoted, 67.
Lie, lay, 77.

Lily, quoted, 320.
Literature, 229.
Litotes, 38.

Locke, quoted, 128, 131, 133.
Lockhart, quoted, 183.
Logic, service of, to rhetoric, 2.
London Times, quoted, 83, 132.
Longfellow, quoted, 11, 30, 66,
67, 69, 110, 114, 133, 319.
Longinus, 241.

Long sentences and short, 9.
Loose sentence, 11.

Love, beneficence of, 116.
Lowell, quoted, 7, 23, 36, 71, 116,
117, 123, 125.
Lyric, the, 328.

Macaulay, quoted, 13, 23, 46, 69,
109, 129, 135, 184, 274, 327.
Mackay, Charles, quoted, 140.
Mackintosh, quoted, 25.
Man, a great, Emerson's defini-
tion of, 162.
Mannerism, 117.

Marlowe, quoted, 66, 134.
Martineau, James, 116.
Masson, David, quoted, 119, 290,
292.

Mathews, Dr. W., quoted, 159,
307.

May, can, 72, 74.
McCarthy, Justin, quoted, 69,

138.

McDonald, George, quoted, 130,
138.

Metaphor, defined, 27; how con-
ceived in present work, 27,
note; points to be regarded in
analysis of the, 27; species of,
28; genesis of, 42.
Method, necessity for, 3; Burke
on, 166; in oratory, 298.
Metonymy, defined, 28; relations
indicated by, 28; force of, 29.
Mill, J. S., quoted, 154, 211.

Milton, quoted, 4, 11, 13, 25, 26,
31, 32, 38, 41, 46, 60, 70, 74, 90,
98, 100, 110, 112, 138, 169, 183,
210, 244, 245, 247, 248, 314, 315,
317, 319.
Mimesis, 23.

Mitford, Miss, 69, 91, 92.
Mock-heroic, 251.
Money, 51.

Montgomery, quoted, 131, 132.
Moods, sequence of, 70.
Mysteries, the, 333.

Napoleon, quoted, 6, 137.
Narrative, definition of, 185;
compared with description, 185;
objective and subjective, 186;
importance of selection in, 186;
order of, illustrated from Pres-
cott's Conquest of Mexico, 187;
essentials of good, 188.
Neologisms, 64.

Newman, Dr. J. H., quoted, 157.
Nichol, Professor, quoted, 69, 93.
Notion, discriminated from prop-

osition, 189; nethods of ex-
pounding, 189.

Novel, the, approaches to the
modern conception of, 288; his-
torical and ethical, 289; motif
of the, 289; plot, 290; charac-
ters, 290; purpose in, 291; test
of the worth of, 292; reading
of, 293; power of, 294.
Novelist, the, as teacher and
artist, 291, 293; test of his
worth, 292.

Observance, observation, 77.
Obsolete words, 64.
Ode, the, 328.

Oliphant, Mrs., quoted, 71, 92,
93.

Periphrasis, 30.

Personification, defined, 33; de-
grees of, 33; force of, 34.
Perspicuity, defined, 62; impor-
tance of, 62; relative, 62; puri- |
ty an element of, 63; propriety,
72; simplicity, 80; conciseness,
84; unity, 86; imagery, 88;
summary, 89.

Philosophy, Emerson's definition
of, 6; nature and comprehen-
sion of, 189; and science, dis-
criminated, 281.
Picturesque, the, 237.
Pleonasm, 101.

Plot, in the novel, 290.
Poe, quoted, 110, 113.
Poetry, chapter on, 308; diction
of, 308; rhythm, 311; metre,
312; rhyme, 317; blank, 318;
what constitutes, 324; defini-
tions of, 327; species, 328; uses
of, 335.
Polysyndeton, 25.

Pronouns, syntax of, 66, 67.
Proof, burden of, 204.
Proper names, 52.
Proposition, defined, 6; discrimi-
nated from notion, 189; meth-
ods of expounding a, 191.
Propriety, defined, 78; offences
against, 78; an element of en-
ergy, 95.
Provincialisms, 65.
Pun, 31.

Punctuation, logic of, 121; pe-
riod, 129; question-mark, 130;
exclamation-point, 130; colon,
130; semicolon, 131; comma,
132; dash, 134; curves, 135;
quotes, 136.

Purity, defined, 63; violations of,
64.

Quarterly Review, quoted, 92.
Quintilian, quoted, 207.
Quotation, 114, 172.
Quotation-points, rules for use of,
136.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, quoted, 61.
Randolph, John, quoted, 25.
Reading, relation of, to style,
151; to invention, 159; Gib-
bon's method of, 160.
Reasoning, deductive, 195; in-
ductive, 196; a priori, a poste-
riori, 201.

Reductio ad Absurdum, 204.
Repetition, 99.

Revision, value of, 150.
Rhetoric, province of, 1; place of,
among the arts, 2; relation of,
to the sciences, 2; utility of, 3;
rules of, what, 4; defined, 5.
Rhyme, 317.
Rhyme Royal, 322.
Rhythm, in prose, 110; in po-
etry, 311.

Richardson, Prof. C. F., quoted,
127.

134, 136, 249, 251, 315.

Preposition, final, 117.

Prescott, quoted, 180.

Ridicule, defined, 260; use and

abuse of, 262.

Ridiculous, the, chapter on, 249.