76; on her early married life and housekeeping, 89; on birth of her son, 101; describing first railroad ride, 106; on her children, 119; her letter to Mrs. Foote, grandmother of H. B. S., 38; letters to H. B. S. from, 161, 268.
Mayflower, the, 103, 158; revised and republished, 251; date of, 490.
Melancholy, 118, 341; a characteristic of Prof. Stowe in childhood, 436.
Men of Our Times, date of, 410.
Middlemarch, H. B. S. wishes to read, 468; character of Casaubon in, 471.
Milman, Dean, 234.
Milton's hell, 303.
Minister's Wooing, the, soul struggles of Mrs. Marvyn, foundation of incident, 25; idea of God in, 29; impulse for writing, 52; appears in
Atlantic monthly, 326; Lowell, J.
R. on, 327, 330, 333; Whittier on, 327; completed, 332; Ruskin on, 336; undertone of pathos, 339; visits England in relation to, 343; date of, 490; reveals warm heart of man beneath the Puritan in Whittier's poem, 502.
Missouri Compromise, 142, 257; repealed, 379.
Mohl, Madame,
pared for scholarly yet graceful and novel historical work.
Yet such was the rating of Ferdinand and Isabella pronounced by these competent specialists in Spanish lore.
One sympathetic and appreciative review came from the hand of Count de Circourt, a man described by Lamartine as a living chest of human knowledge, which gave the unknown and modest American immense satisfaction.
He was actually received at once into the international circle of authoritative scholarship.
Hallam, Guizot, Milman, Sismondi, Thierry, were among those to give Prescott not condescending but cordial welcome as one of their own rank.
Such an authority as C. P. Gooch states in 1913 that the work published in 1837 has not been superseded to this day. Research has brought, indeed, masses of documents to light that Prescott never heard of. Critics differ from him in conclusions—strange if they did not. Yet there is more serious difference of opinion between Vignaud and Harrisse, both writing on Columbus in t
women, 137
Mendelssohn, 224
Menu, Laws of, 9
Mercury (Charleston), 296
Mercury (Newport), 178
Meredith, George, 18
Meredith, William Tuckey, 285
Merimee, 384
Merry Christmas, a, 381
Merry Mount, 134, 135, 136
Merwin, Henry Childs, 362 n.
Michael Angelo, 37
Middle group of American historians, 104 n., 122 n.
Miles, G. H., 305
Miles O'Reilly.
See Halpine, C. G.
Miles Standish, 39
Milk for Babes, drawn out of the breast, of both Testaments, 396
Milman, Dean, 128
Milton, 3, 63, 124, 254, 399
Minerva, 180
Mingo and other sketches, 389
Minister's Wooing, the, 200
Minor, Benjamin Blake, 169
Minot, George Richards, 106
Mirror (N. Y.), 151, 152, 164, 187
Miss Lucinda, 373
Miss Tempy's Watchers, 383
Mr. Dooley, 151
Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, 23
Mr. Hosea Biglow to the Editor of The
Atlantic monthly, 287
Mr. Rabbit at Home, 350
Mitchell, D. G., 167
Mitchell, S. Weir, 242, 282, 285
Modern English gramma
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Hallam.
Elizabeth Barrett.
Lockhart.
Jeffrey.
Sir Edmund Head.
story of Canning.
story of the Duke of Sussex.
Milman.
Elphinstone.
Cambridge.
Whewell.
Sedgwick.
Smyth.
journey North.
Journal.
March 19.—We had a very good ken of lightly; Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, which Lord Lansdowne said he had bought from its reputation, and which Milman in his quiet way praised. . . . .
April 3.—Breakfasted at Dr. Holland's, where I met only Hallam.
Of course I had a m's, a party made for us, and it would not be easy to make one more delightful: Whewell and Professor Smyth, of Cambridge; Milman; Sir Francis Palgrave, the historian, and Keeper of the Records at Westminster; Empson, the successor of Sir James Mackinadded to the curious venerableness of the whole arrangement.
When we had seen all this we went to the Cloisters, where Milman, amidst the remains of the monastery of the elder religion, has a most tasteful and quiet mansion, arranged . . . . by In
of the table's attention; but well enough to be out a great deal in the evenings, and with fresh spirits.
I dined with him and Lord John, at Richmond at Lord Lansdowne's, and at the Duke of Argyll's. The rest were breakfasts, at Lord Stanhope's, Milman's, Van De Weyer's, etc., and at his own house.
He lives in a beautiful villa, with a rich, large, and brilliant lawn behind it, keeps a carriage, and—as he told us—keeps four men-servants, including his coachman, and lives altogether in elegant Those dear friends, Sir Charles and Lady Lyell, happened to be in Dresden at the time of the arrival of the party; and later a meeting was arranged there, with Mr. and Mrs. Twisleton and her sister, that was delightful; besides which Dean and Mrs. Milman passed through about the same time.
One pleasant afternoon, especially, this tripartite party of American and English friends spent with the charming family of the artist, Julius Hubner, looking over his drawings and enjoying his collections.