Lecky, witchcraft in England, 56; opinion of Hooker, 225; great and multiform influences of Christian philanthropy, 372.
Legends and parables: a Brahman turned into a monkey, 49; Moses and the dwellers by the Dead Sea, 49; the redbreast, and how it was singed, 55; the man in the moon, 79; man and woman in the moon, 79; Gertrud bird, the woodpecker, 79; the Wandering Jew, 80; the Brahman and the three rogues, 296; Og, a king of Bashan, 298; Nimrod and the gnat, 302; Gabriel and the idol-worshiper, 346; St. John in the arms of his disciples, 359; blind men and the elephant, 379; St. Brendan and Judas Iscariot, 387; Abraham and the old man who worshiped the fire only, 388.
Leighton, a clergyman, persecution of, 363.
Leslie, anecdote of Owen and Wilberforce, 92.
Lessing, the restless instinct for truth, 32.
Life, every year of a wise man's, 8; a series of surprises, 24; knowledge of, 353; beginning and end of, 353; stanza on, 356.
Lincoln, his dislike of being preached to, 94; how he earned his first dollar, 122; idea the slaves had of him, 314; the reason he gave for not uniting himself to any church, 386.
Livingstone, exclamation of Sekwebu at seeing the sea, 19; tribe of good Africans, 102.
Lockhart, wrote the first of the Noctes papers, 255.
Lowell, definition of common sense, 7; Montaigne and Shakespeare, 12; witchcraft, 61.
Lucian, a pretty passage in one of his dialogues, 296.
Luther, a violent saint sometimes, 45; what Heine said of him, 47; what he said of himself, 47; and the devil, 204; believed in ghosts, 243; relations with Erasmus, 308; opinion of Erasmus, 309; with Melancthon in the pulpit, 310.
Macaulay, conduct of a nephew of, 25; a laborious writer, 129; Machiavelli, 233; Byron, 298; times of Cromwell and Charles II., 304, 305, 306; ethics of Charles II.; hanging of Aikenhead, 362.
Machiavelli, of judging by appearances, 71; a zealous republican, 233; curious facts relating to, 233.
Mackenzie, Henry, his advice to Burns, 145; a hard-headed, practical man, 255.
Mackenzie, Sir George, an advocate of solitude, 244.
Mahomet, turns a misfortune to advantage, 66.
Maistre, Xavier de, on self-love, 12; of people fancying themselves ill, 76.
Malherbe, how he composed 126; anecdotes of, 126.