Boswell, 437
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, 262
Burns, 441; his birth, and humble heroic parents, 442; rustic dialect, 442; the most gifted British soul of his century, 443; resemblance to Mirabeau, 444; his sincerity, 445; his visit to Edinburgh, Lion-hunted to death, 448
Caabah, the, with its Black Stone and Sacred Well, 304
Canopus, worship of, 265
Charles I. fatally incapable of being dealt with, 467
China, literary governors of, 422
Church. See Books
Cromwell, 461; his hypochondria, 465, 470; early marriage and conversion; a quiet farmer, 465; his Ironsides, 468; his Speeches, 472, 486; his 'ambition,' and the like, 474; dismisses the Rump Parliament, 482; Protectorship and Parliamentary Futilities, 486; his last days, and closing sorrows, 488
Dante, 340; biography in his Book and Portrait, 340; his birth, education and early career, 341; love for Beatrice, unhappy marriage, banishment, 342; uncourtier-like ways, 343; death, 345; his Divina Commedia genuinely a song, 345; the Unseen World, as figured in the Christianity of the Middle Ages, 351; 'uses' of Dante, 354
David, the Hebrew King, 301
Divine Right of Kings, 451
Duty, 286, 318; infinite nature of, 330; sceptical spiritual paralysis, 425
Edda, the Scandinavian, 272
Eighteenth Century, the sceptical, 424-429, 461
Elizabethan Era, 356
Faults, his, not the criterion of any man, 301
Fichte's theory of literary men, 410
Fire, miraculous nature of, 273
Forms, necessity for, 458
Frost. See Fire
Goethe's 'characters,' 359; notablest of literary men, 411
Graphic, secret of being, 347
Gray's misconception of Norse lore, 290
Hampden, 460
Heroes, Universal History the united biographies of, 257, 285; how 'little critics' account for great men, 268; all Heroes fundamentally of the same stuff, 283, 333, 370, 408; Heroism possible to all, 382, 399; Intellect the primary outfit, 360; no man a hero to a valet-soul, 437, 461, 469
Hero-worship the tap-root of all Religion, 267; perennial in man, 270, 456
Hutchinson and Cromwell, 460, 489
Iceland, the home of Norse Poets, 272
Idolatry, 375; criminal only when insincere, 377
Igdrasil, the Life-Tree, 276, 356
Intellect, the summary of man's gifts, 360
Islam, 311
Job, the Book of, 304
Johnson's difficulties, poverty, hypochondria, 432; rude self-help; stands genuinely by the old formulas, 433; his noble unconscious sincerity, 434; twofold Gospel, of Prudence and hatred of Cant, 435; his Dictionary, 436; the brave old Samuel, 437
Jotuns, 273, 291
Kadijah, the good, Mahomet's first Wife, 308, 310
King, the, a summary of all the various figures of Heroism, 449; indispensable in all movements of men, 481
Knox's influence on Scotland, 399; the bravest of Scotchmen, 401; his unassuming career; is sent to the French Galleys, 404; his colloquies with Queen Mary, 404; vein of drollery; a brother to high and to low; his death, 406
Koran, the, 319
Lamaism, Grand, 261
Leo X., the elegant Pagan Pope, 386
Liberty and Equality, 381, 455
Literary Men, 410; in China, 423
Literature, chaotic condition of, 412; not our heaviest evil, 424
Luther's birth and parentage, 382; hardship and rigorous necessity; death of Alexis; becomes monk, 383; his religious despair; finds a Bible; deliverance from darkness, 385; Rome, 385; Tetzel, 386; burns the Pope's Bull, 388; at the Diet of Worms, 389; King of the Reformation, 392; 'Duke Georges nine days running,' 394; his little daughter's deathbed; his solitary Patmos, 395; his Portrait, 396
