Actress, an, in an almshouse, 507;
starving for admiration, 508.

Addison, early home of, 215;
buried among the men of rank, 456.

Advice, as to giving, 42.

Ailsa Craig, 358.

Alexander, Miss, the Lass of Ballochmyle, 344.

Almshouse, a great English, 498-522.

American flags, captured, displayed in Chelsea Hospital, 435.

American mercantile marine, misrepresented at Liverpool, 2, 3, 46;
its vicious system, 45, 48.

American shipmasters, cruelties of, 44-49.

Americans, national characteristics of, as seen by a consul, 9, 10;
vagabond habits of, 11, 12;
as claimants of English estates, 18, 22-31;
growth and change the law of their existence, 93;
their scholars and critics, 190;
their light regard for the President, 553.

AndrÉ, Major, at Lichfield, 216.

Anne, Queen, statue of, at Blenheim, 295.

Antiquity, hoar, in English scenes, 90.

Archdeacon ale, 300.

Armour, Jean, 329, 330, 346.

Auchinleck, estate of, 343.

Avon, the, arched bridge at Warwick, 105;
a sluggish river, 166.

Ayr, ride to, 347;
its two bridges, 348.

Bacon, Lord, his Letters, 176.

Bacon, Miss, a very remarkable woman, 172;
her Shakespearean theory, 172, 173, 176-178;
her personal appearance, 174;
her book, 179, 189, 192;
an admirable talker, 180;
at Stratford, 181-191;
her plans for searching Shakespeare's grave, 182-184;
Hawthorne incurs her displeasure, 188;
her insanity, 191;
her death, 192.

Ballochmyle, the Lass of, 344.

Banquets, civic, 527-588.

Barber Surgeons' Hall, in London, 537-539.

Bear and Ragged Staff, the, cognizance of the Warwick Earldom, 109;
silver badge of, 113;
representations of, at Leicester's Hospital, 116, 118, 133.

Beauchamp, Richard, Earl of Warwick, memorial of, 138;
strange accident to, 139.

Beauchamp Chapel, at Warwick, 137-140.

Bebbington, monuments at, 85, note;
old village church of, 98, note.

Beggar, a true Englishman's dislike of a, 491;
hardening the heart against, 492;
a phenomenal, 493-495.

Belmont, August, minister at the Hague, 29.

Ben Lomond, 358.

Black Swan inn, Lichfield, 199.

Blackheath, the wide waste of, 370-373;
amusements at, 373-375.

Blenheim, excursion to, 281, 282;
its park, 283-289;
Marlborough's Triumphal Pillar at, 289;
its palace, 289-296;
its gardens, 296-298.

Bolton, 231.

Boston, old, trip to, by steamer from Lincoln, 255-259;
the river side of, 260;
antique-looking houses at, 263;
a bookseller's shop at, 264, 265;
its crooked and narrow streets, 275;
its Charity School scholars, 277;
market-day in, 278.

Boswell, Sir James, grandson of Johnson's friend, 343.

Brooke, Lord, shot near the Minster Pool, 206.

Brown, Capability, his lake at Blenheim, 284;
grounds at Nuneham Courtney, 321.

Buchanan, James, in London, 20;
receives Hawthorne's resignation, 55;
calls on Miss Bacon, 178.

Buckland, Dean, swallows part of Louis XIV.'s heart, 270.

Bull, John, too intensely English, 101.

Bunker Hill, England, 279.

Burleigh, Lord, waistcoat of, 266.

Burns, Robert, his house at Dumfries, 325-327;
his mausoleum, 329, 330;
marble statue of, 329;
his outward life, 331;
his family pew in St. Michael's Church, 334;
his farm of Moss Giel, 337-342;
his birthplace, 349-351;
his monument, 351-353.

Butchers' shops, in poor streets of London, 474.

Carfax, the, 320.

Caskets, burial, "a vile modern phrase," 140.

Cass, Lewis, responds to interference of British Minister, 46.

Catrine, "the clean village of Scotland," 345.

Ceylon, wild men of, 28.

Charlecote Hall, 195-198.

Charlecote Park, 193; deer in, 194, 195.

Charles, the Martyr, king, 270.

Charles I., Vandyck's picture of, 292.

Chelsea, 433.

Chelsea Hospital, 433-437.

Chester, most curious town in England, 59.

Children in an English almshouse, 509-519.

Children, poor, in London streets, 487-489.

Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford, 155.

Climate, English, unfavorable to open-air memorials, 83, 84.

Cockneys, in Greenwich Park, 379.

Coffee-room, English, ponderous gloom of, 200.

Combe, John a', boon-companion of Shakespeare, 164;
buried near Shakespeare, 168;
marble figure of, 170;
Shakespeare's squib on, 170.

Concord River, compared with the Leam, 67.

Connecticut shopkeeper, a, seeking interview with the Queen, 17-21.

Conner, Mr., an American patron of Leicester's Hospital, 133.

Consul, as general adviser and helper, 31, 32, 42, 43;
as arbiter between seamen and their officers, 44-49;
not a favorite with shipmasters, 49;
necessary qualifications, 51, 52;
wrong system of appointment and removal, 52;
important duties, 53;
emoluments, 55, note.

Consulate, American, in Liverpool, its location, 1;
its approaches, 1, 2;
its furnishings, 3-6;
visitors at, 7-21;
faithful English subordinates, 50, 51;
Hawthorne's successor at, 56.

Cook, Captain, present from Queen of Otaheite to, 266.

Cornwall, Barry, 469.

Cottages, rustic laborers', 79-81.

Cotton, Rev. John, in Old Boston, 263, 270, 271.

Crystal Palace, the, 438.

Cumnor, village of, 301; its church, 302, 303.

Cymbeline, King, founder of Warwick, 103, 129;
one of his original gateways, 112.

Deluge, necessity of a new, 472, 518.

Dinner, the English idea of, 527;
Milton on, 528;
a perfect work of art, 530, 531;
an English mayor's, 539-560;
Lord Mayor's, at the Mansion House, 563.

Doctor of Divinity, an erring, 33-41.

Doon, the bridge of, 357.

Dowager, an English, 73-75.

Dudley, Earl of Leicester, establishes Leicester's Hospital, 115;
a grim sinner, 127;
his monument in Beauchamp Chapel, 137;
his long-enduring kindness, 138.

Dumfries, excursion to, 325-334.

Dutch government, an American under the ban of, 29.

East winds, English, 257.

Edward IV., King, a lock of his hair, 140.

Edward the Confessor, shrine of, 455.

Elizabeth, Queen, Secret-Book of, 269.

Elm, the beautiful Warwickshire, 69.

England, conservative, 141;
yet the foundations of its aristocracy crumbling, 141.

English, the, forgetful of defeats, 4;
their character, massive materiality of, 23;
secret of their practical success, 42;
impostors betrayed by pronunciation of "been," 44;
their integrity, 51;
their love of high stone fences and shrubbery, 69, 371;
curious infelicity of, 100;
like to feel the weight of the past, 111;
the very kindest people on earth, 305;
their insular narrowness, 306;
their inability to enjoy summer, 367;
original simplicity of, 379;
eager to know their weight, 402;
women not beautiful, 406;
their contempt for fine-strained purity, 408, 409;
their tendency to batter one another's persons, 482.

English crowds, unfragrant, 397, 398.

English post-prandial oratory, 555, 579.

English village, fossilized life of an, 93.

English weather, 5, 366-368.

Englishman, a middle-aged, personal appearance of, 542.

Epitaphs: illegible, on English gravestones, 84;
moss-embossed, 85;
forlorn one on John Treeo, 86, 87.

Eugene, Prince, tapestry portraits of, 294.

Feeing, in England, 161, 162, note.

Feminine character among the London poor, 481-487.

Fences, English stone, adorned by Nature, 151, 152, note.

Forster, Anthony, buried in Cumnor Church, 303.

Fruit, English, poor flavor of, 364.

Fun of the Fair, the, 399.

Garrick, David, boyish days at Lichfield, 216.

Gin-shops, London, 472.

Girls, English and American, contrasted, 72, 75, 406.

Godiva, Countess, picture of, 535.

Godstowe, old nunnery of, 317.

Gravestones, English, successive crops of, 83;
illegible inscriptions on, 84;
moss-embossed inscriptions on, 85.

Greenwich, its park, 376, 377, 379, 380, 383;
its observatory, the centre of Time and Space, 376;
its hospital, 385-396;
its fair, 396-408.

Hatton, a community of old settlers, 95;
its church, 96, 97.

Hawthorne responds to toasts at civic banquets, 558-560, 582-588.

Hedges, English, 149.

Henry V., his helmet and war-saddle displayed in Westminster Abbey, 455.

Highland Mary, the pocket Bible that Burns gave her, 353.

Holbein, masterpiece of, in Barber Surgeons' Hall, 537.

Home, a genuine British, 359-364.

Hotels and hotel bills, English, 162, note.

Houses of Parliament, the, 431.

Hunt, Leigh, interview with, 459-468;
final recollection of, 468.

Imogen, Shakespeare's womanliest woman, 129.

Jackson, General, bust of, 4.

James, G. P. R., never saw London Tower, 428.

James I., King, feasted by an Earl of Warwick, 119, 134.

Jephson, Dr., discoverer of chalybeate well at Leamington, 63.

Jephson Garden, on the Leam, 65-67.

Johnson, Dr., born at Lichfield, 201;
as a man, a talker, and a humorist, 202;
the great English moralist, 203;
his birthplace, 216, 217;
his statue, by Lucas, 218;
statue in St. Paul's Cathedral, 219, note;
doing penance in the market-place, 220, 223, 228, 229, 230;
his faith in beef and mutton, 225.

Johnson, Michael, selling books on market-day, 221;
his book-stall, 222;
at the Nag's Head inn, 226, 227.

Jolly Beggars, the, at Posie Nansie's inn, 336.

Jonson, Ben, buried standing upright, 451.

Judges, social standing of, 549.

Kemble, John, statue of, in Westminster Abbey, 445.

Kirk Alloway, 354-356.

"Kissing in the Ring," 404.

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, his objection to being buried in Westminster Abbey, 449.

Lambeth Palace, 432.

Lancashire, a dreary county, 231.

Lansdowne Circus, 60;
its houses, 61;
its inhabitants, 62.

Leam, the river, 63, 65;
the laziest in the world, 67.

Leamington Spa, 60;
a permanent watering-place, 63, 64;
the business portion of the town, 68;
beautiful in street and suburb, 69;
but pretentious, 70;
its aristocratic names, 71;
the throng on its principal Parade, 71, 72.

Lear, West's dreary picture of, 390.

Leicester's Hospital at Warwick:
an assemblage of edifices, 112;
the twelve brethren of, 113, 115, 116, 118, 125, 131, 134, 135;
a perfect specimen, 116;
a jolly old domicile, 121;
system of life in, 123;
the porter at, 124-126.

Lestrange, Sir Nicholas, first proprietor of Leicester's Hospital buildings, 114, 115.

Lichfield, 199;
origin of the name, 201;
birthplace of Dr. Johnson, 201, 216;
its people old-fashioned, 204;
its cathedral, 206-214.

Lillington, the village, 78;
its church, 81, 82;
its churchyard, 83-87.

Lincoln, cabs unknown there, 236;
its narrow principal street, 237;
its cathedral, 236, 239-249, 253, 254;
Roman remains at, 250;
Norman ruins at, 251.

Linkwater, Sir John, fines himself for drunkenness, 548.

Liquor, varieties of hop and malt, in England, 299, 300.

Liverpool, a convenient starting-point for excursions, 58.

Lodgings, English custom of, 70, note.

London, suburb, a, 359;
a distant view of, 373;
grimy, 375.

Lord Mayor's dinner, at the Mansion House, 563-588.

Lovers' Grove, at Leamington, 77.

Loving-cup, the Lord Mayor's, 575-577.

Lucy, Sir Thomas, and Shakespeare, 196.

Malay pirates, delightful qualities of, 28.

Mansfield, Lord, statue of, in Westminster Abbey, 445.

Mansion House, the, in London, 563.

Marlborough, Duke of, Triumphal Pillar of, 288.

Mary Queen of Scots, quilt embroidered by, 265, 271.

Mauchline, redolent of Burns, 335;
rusty and time-worn, 336;
its chief business, 346.

Maury, Mr., appointed consul at Liverpool by Washington, 50.

McClellan, General, before Richmond, 43.

Melville, Herman, his "Israel Potter" referred to, 13.

"Memory green, keep his," possible origin of the phrase, 86.

Methodist open-air preaching in Greenwich Park, 380-383.

Minster Pool, the, at Lichfield, 205.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, monument to, in Lichfield Cathedral, 211.

Moss Giel, Burns's farm of, 337-342.

Museum, the British, too many materials for knowledge in, 384, note.

Nag's Head inn, the, at Uttoxeter, 226.

Nelson, Admiral, his highest ambition, 391;
not a representative man, 392-394;
Southey's biography of, 393;
pictures of his exploits, 394;
two of his coats preserved at Greenwich Hospital, 395.

Newcastle, Duke and Duchess of, 444.

New Orleans, battle of, forgotten by Englishmen, 4.

Nuneham Courtney, 314, 320-322.

Old age, cheerful and genial in England, 277.

Open-air life of the London poor, 476-481.

Otaheite, Queen of, her present to Captain Cook, 266, 271.

Oxford, barges at, 318;
indescribable, 322, 323.

Painted Hall, the, at Greenwich Hospital, 390, 391.

Parliament, British, and American sailors, 45, 46.

Parr, Dr., once vicar of Hatton, 95;
a misplaced man, 97;
a guest at Leicester's Hospital, 130.

Peacock hotel, Old Boston, 259.

Pearce, Mr., vice-consul at Liverpool, 50.

Peel, Sir Robert, and Holbein's masterpiece in Barber Surgeons' Hall, 537.

Philadelphia printer, a, wandering about England, 13-17.

Poets' Corner, in Westminster Abbey, 451-459.

Pope, Alexander, his account of Stanton Harcourt, 308;
translation of Homer, 314.

Porter, Mr., bookseller at Old Boston, 265-271.

Posie Nansie's inn at Mauchline, 336.

Posthumus and Imogen, 129.

Poverty, glimpses of English, 470-524.

Procter, Bryan Waller, 469.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, and the Thames Tunnel, 420-422.

"Red Letter A," author of, 306.

Redfern's Old Curiosity Shop, at Warwick, 142, 143.

Regatta of the Free Watermen of Greenwich, a, 413.

Remorse, tragedy of, 40.

Robsart, Amy, embroidery by, at Leicester's Hospital, 133;
monument of her avenger, 137.

Rosamond, Fair, at the nunnery of Godstowe, 317.

Rosamond's Well, Blenheim, 287.

Russell, Lord John, remonstrates against outrages on American sailors, 46.

Sacheverell, Dr., 219.

Sacrament Sunday at Mauchline, 337.

Sailors, American, ill-usage of, 44.

St. Botolph's Church, Old Boston, 259, 262, 272-275.

St. Chad, 201.

St. Hugh, shrine of, in Lincoln Cathedral, 247.

St. John's School-House, at Warwick, 104.

St. Mary's Church, at Warwick, 136.

St. Mary's Hall, at Coventry, 533-536.

St. Mary's Square, at Lichfield, 216, 218.

St. Michael's Church, at Dumfries, 328, 332-334.

St. Paul's Cathedral, 429.

Saracen's Head hotel, Lincoln, 236.

Scenery, English, 146, 232.

Schools, English, long-established, 104.

Scott, Sir Walter, attractiveness of his name, 160;
and Anthony Forster, 303.

Seward, Miss, at Lichfield, 216.

Shakespeare: his church, 155;
his birthplace, 157-163;
his various guises, 164;
his curse on the man who should stir his bones, 165;
his burial-place, 165-171;
family monuments, 167;
his bust, in the church at Stratford, 168, 169;
Miss Bacon's theory, 175;
immeasurable depth of his plays, 175.

Sheffield, the town of razors and smoke, 235.

Sherwood Forest, 235.

Shrewsbury, pleasant walks in, 238, note.

Southey, Robert, his Life of Nelson, 393.

Stanton Harcourt, its hospitable parsonage, 305;
its old castle, 306, 307, 313, 314;
Pope's connection with, 308, 309, 314, 315;
its church, 309-312.

Sterne, Laurence, crayon-portrait of, 267.

Stocks, village, at Whitnash, 90.

Stratford-on-Avon, scenery near, 145;
approach to, 153, 154;
queer edifices in, 155.

Swans, aspect and movement of, 66.

Swynford, Catherine, monument of, in Lincoln Cathedral, 247.

Tam O'Shanter, statue of, 353.

Taylor, General, portrait of, 4.

Temple, the, 431.

Tennyson, and English scenery, 77.

Testament, New, consular copy of, 6, 45.

Thames, ferry near Cumnor, 305;
steamers on, 412;
its muddy tide, 414;
a summer day's voyage on, 412-435.

Thames Tunnel, the, 415-423.

Thornhill, Sir James, 291, 390.

Tickell, Thomas, his lines on Addison, 456.

Tower of London, the, 427, 428.

Traitor's Gate, the, 427.

Treeo, John, forlorn epitaph on, 86.

Trees, English and American, compared, 147-149.

Tuckerman, H. T., his "Month in England," 439.

Uttoxeter, 221;
its idle people, 223;
its abundance of public houses, 224.

Vagabonds, Yankee, abroad, 11-22.

Vandyck, his picture of Charles I., 292.

Victoria, Queen, a Connecticut shopkeeper goes to England to see her, 18-21;
some American blood-relatives, 26.

Walmesley, Gilbert, monument to, in Lichfield Cathedral, 211.

Wapping, cold and torpid, 425.

Warren, Sir Peter, bust of, in Westminster Abbey, 444.

Warwick, founded by Cymbeline, 103, 129;
its castle, 105, 107;
its principal street, 108, 109;
military display at, 109;
the High Street, 110;
Leicester's Hospital, 112-127;
the home of Posthumus and Imogen, 129;
church of St. Mary's, 136-140;
Redfern's Old Curiosity Shop, 142, 143.

Warwickshire Elm, the beautiful, 69.

Wasps, attracted by pomatum, 319.

Wedding, of some poor English people, 522-524;
an aristocratic, in the same cathedral, 525.

Wedding, silver, as a matter of conscience, 76.

West, Benjamin, picture by, at Greenwich, 389.

Westminster Abbey, a Sunday afternoon service in, 440;
its interior, 441;
statues and tombs in, 444-447;
"they do bury fools there," 449;
Poets' Corner, 451-459.

Whitefriars, the old rowdy Alsatia, 430.

Whitnash, secluded village of, 88;
yew-tree of incalculable age at, 89;
village stocks of, 90;
change at work in, 93, 94.

Wilberforce, William, statue of, in Westminster Abbey, 446, 447.

Wilding, Mr., vice-consul at Liverpool, 51.

Wilkins, Sergeant, 550, 551, 557.

Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, 286.

Witham, the river, 255, 263.

Women, in the poorer streets of London, 479, 484;
in an English almshouse, 499;
at public dinners, 567.

Woodstock, 282.

Wren, Sir Christopher, restorer of St. Mary's Church, Warwick, 136.

Yew-tree, extraordinary age of, 89.