The Letters of William James, Vol. 2

Part 29

Chapter 293,566 wordsPublic domain

James, Alexander R. (=J.='s son), =2=, 37, 43, 92. _See Contents._

James, Alice (=J.='s sister), her diary quoted, =1=, 16; in England with H. James, Jr., from 1885 on, 258; her illness, 258, 259, 284; her diary quoted, 259 _n._; quoted, on =J.='s European trip in 1889, 289, 290; her death, 319; mentioned, 18, 47, 60, 69, 91, 103, 142, 172, 183, 217, 220, 281, 285, 286, =2=, 127. _See Contents._

James, Mrs. Catherine (Barber), third wife of W. James I, (=J.='s paternal grandmother), "a dear gentle lady," =1=, 6; her house in Albany, 105; mentioned, 4, 5 _n._, 7.

James, Garth Wilkinson (=J.='s brother), wounded at Fort Wagner, =1=, 43, 44, 49; mentioned, =1=, 17, 33, 35, 36, 40, 41, 42, 51, 52, 60, 69, 70, 88, 135 _n._, 136, 192.

James, Henry, Senior (=J.='s father), quoted, on his father, =1=, 4, his grandfather, 5, and his mother, 5 and _n._; his habit of thought expressed in his description of his mother, 5 _n._; sketch of his life and character, 7-19; maimed for life by accident, 7, 8; his discontent with orthodox dispensation, 8; marries Mary Walsh, 8; =J.='s striking resemblance to, 10; relations with his children, 10, 18, 19; =J.='s introduction to his _Literary Remains_, 10, 13; letters of, to Emerson, 11; effect of Swedenborg's works on, 12; the only business of his later life, 1=2=, 13; =J.='s estimate of, 13; Henry James quoted on, 14; letter of, to editor of _New Jerusalem Messenger_, 14-16; his directions regarding his funeral service, 16; Godkin quoted on, 17; E. W. Emerson quoted on, 17, 18 and _n._; and Miss Emerson, 18 _n._; influence of his "full and homely idiom" on the conversation of his sons, 18; his philosophy, discussed by =J.=, 96, 97; his essay on Swedenborg, 117; letter of, to Henry James, 169; dangerously ill, 218; =J.='s last letter to, 218-220; his _Secret of Swedenborg_, 220; his death, 221; =J.='s memories of, 221, 222; his mentality described, 241, 242; compared with Carlyle, 241; mentioned, =2=, 6, 7, 27, 36, 53, 68, 80, 92, 103, 104, 115 and _n._, 118, 135 _n._, 153, 157, 158 and _n._, 175, 217, 260, 289, 290, 316, =2=, 39, 278. _See Contents._

_Literary Remains_ of, edited by =J.=, =1=, 4 and _n._, 5 _n._, 10, 13, 236, 239, 240, 241.

James, Mrs. Henry, Senior (Mary Walsh), (=J.='s mother), her character, =1=, 9; her death, 218; mentioned, 8, 69, 80, 103, 117, 156, 175, 183, 219, 220. _See Contents._

James, Henry, Jr. (=J.='s brother), impressions of an elder generation reflected in _The Wings of the Dove_, =1=, 7; and his mother, 9; his birth, 9; quoted, on his father, 14; influence of his father's "idiom" on his speech, 18; at the Collège de Boulogne, 20; early secret passion for authorship, 21; his "meteorological blunder," 21; quoted, on =J.=, as "he sits drawing," 22, 23; letter of his father to, 169; his feeling for Europe, 209; its reaction on him and on =J.=, contrasted, 209, 210; described by =J.=, 288; his "third manner" of writing criticized by =J.=, =2=, 240, 277-279; his paper on Boston, 252; mentioned, =1=, 17, 25, 33, 36, 40, 41, 45, 51, 53, 68, 70, 76, 80, 90, 94, 95, 99, 100, 115, 117, 118, 136, 138, 141, 148 _n._, 174, 175, 177, 178, 180, 218, 219, 240, 258, 260, 262, 269, 283, 284, 286, 287, 289, 290, 319, =2=, 10, 35, 61, 62, 84, 105, 106, 110, 161, 167, 168, 169, 170, 192, 193, 215, 224, 250, 280, 315, 333, 335, 338, 341, 350. _See Contents._

Works of: _The American_, =1=, 185; _The American Scene_, =2=, 264, 277, 299; _The Bostonians_, =1=, 250, 25=1=, 25=2=, 253; _The Golden Bowl_, =2=, 240; Notes _of a Son and Brother_, =1=, 10, 11 _n._, 24, 32, 36, 135 _n._; _Partial Portraits_, 280; _The Portrait of a Lady_, 36; _Princess Cassamassima_, 251; _The Reverberator_, 280; _Roderick Hudson_, 184; _W. W. Story, Life of_, 27 _n._; _The Tragic Muse_, 299; _A Small Boy and Others_, 4 _n._, 8 _n._, 9, 10, 14, 20, 21, 22, 23; _The Wings of the Dove_, 7, 36, =2=, 240.

James, Henry, 3d (=J.='s son), =1=, 275, 278, 279, 282, 329, 330, 336, 343, =2=, 30, 31, 84, 129, 143, 145, 147, 159, 324. _See Contents._

James, Hermann (J.'s son), birth of, =1=, 234, 235; death of, 247.

James, Margaret M. (=J.='s daughter), birth of, =1=, 267; mentioned, 275, 276, 279, 281, 322, 332, 336, =2=, 43, 54, 98, 102, 110, 130, 191. _See Contents._

James, Robertson (=J.='s brother), in Union army, =1=, 43, 44; mentioned, 17, 33, 41, 43, 52, 60, 69, 70, 81, 136.

James, William, =J.='s grandfather, his career, from penury to great wealth, =1=, 2, 3; a leading citizen of Albany, 3; personal appearance, 3; anecdotes of, 3, 4; H. James, Senior, quoted on, 4; his stiff Presbyterianism and its results, 4; his will disallowed by court, 4, 6; marries Catherine Barber, 4.

James, William, (=J.='s uncle), =1=, 6.

JAMES, WILLIAM. His ancestors in America, =1=, 1; recurrence of his father's habit of thought in, 5 _n._; and his mother, 9; resemblance of, to his father, 10; quoted, on his father, 13; influence of his father's "idiom," 18 and _n._; frequent changes of schools and tutors, 19; in Europe, 1855 to 1858, 19; at the Collège de Boulogne, and the "Academy" of Geneva, 20; quoted, on his education, 20; interest in exact knowledge, 20; begins study of anatomy at Geneva, 21; his cosmopolitanism of consciousness, 22; widely read in three languages, 22; effect of his early training, 22; takes up painting, 22-24; portrait of Katharine Temple, 24; physique, personal appearance and dress, 24, 25; temperament and conversation, 26; "smiting" quality of his best talk, 27; keen about new things, 28; disadvantage of being too encouraging to "little geniuses," 28, 29; freer criticism of those who had arrived, 29; influence as a teacher at Harvard, 29, 30; in Lawrence Scientific School, 31 and _n._; physical condition keeps him out of army in Civil War, 47; transfers from Chemistry to Comparative Anatomy, 47; and Jeffries Wyman, 48, 49; begins course at Medical School, 53; philosophy begins to beckon, 53; joins Agassiz's expedition to the Amazon, 54; his nine months with Agassiz not wasted, 55, 56; has small-pox at Rio, 60, 61, 63 and _n._; interne at Mass. General Hospital, 71; again in Medical School, 71-84.

Impaired health causes his visit to Germany, 84, 85; in Dresden, Berlin and Teplitz, 85, 86; describes his condition in letter to his father, 95, 96; returns to U. S., 139; takes degree of M.D. (1869), 140; eye-weakness, 140, 141; scope of his reading, 141, 142 and _n._, 143; his note-books, 143, 144; relation between earlier and later writings, 144 and _n._; morbid depression, 145; chapter on the "sick soul" the story of his own case, 145-147; return of resolution and self-confidence, 147, 148; Instructor in Physiology, 165; his real subject, physiological psychology, 165, 166; his deepest inclination always toward philosophy, 166; H. James, Senior's, letter on the change in =J.='s mental tone and outlook, 169, 170; decides to devote himself to biology, 171; Europe again, 171; end of the period of morbid depression, 171; gives course in Psychology and organizes Psychological Laboratory, 179 and _n_,; contributions to periodicals, 180; on teaching of philosophy in American colleges, 189 _ff._

Marries Alice H. Gibbens, 192; effect of his new domesticity, 193; importance of his wife's companionship and understanding, 193; contracts to write a volume on Psychology, 194; vacations in Keene Valley, 195; his mode of life there, 195; a bit of self-analysis, 199, 200; first work on _Psychology_, 203, 223; declines invitation to teach at Johns Hopkins, 203; in Europe, 1880-83, 208 _ff._; and Henry James, 209, 210; "reaction" on Europe, 209, 210; death of his mother, 218, and of his father, 221; his memories of them, 221, 222; corresponding member of English Society for Psychical Research, 227; an organizer and officer of the American Society, 227; investigates psychic phenomena, 227 _ff._; conducts American Census of Hallucinations, 228, 229; edits his father's _Literary Remains_, 236, 239 _ff._; his life at Chocorua, 271, 272, 273.

Abroad in 1889, 286 _ff._; at International Congress of Physiological Psychology, 288, 289, 290; his new house in Cambridge, 290, 291; his inclination toward the under-dog, 292, 293, =2=, 178; completion of the _Psychology_, =1=, 293 _ff._; effect of its publication on his reputation, 300; prepares an abridgment (_Briefer Course_), 300, 301; turns his attention more fully toward philosophy, 301; raises money for Harvard Laboratory, 301, and recommends Münsterberg as its head, 301; his sabbatical year abroad, 302, 320 _ff._; beginning of his friendship with Flournoy, 320; receives honorary degree at Padua, 333.

How his mind was moving during the nineties, =2=, 2 _ff._; his opinion of psychology, 2; new courses at Harvard, 3, 4; outside lecturing, 4; would devote his thought and work to metaphysical and religious questions, 5; frustrations, 5, 6; personal appearance, 6, 7; his daily round, 7-9; the Club, 9, 10; nervous break-down, 10; D. S. Miller quoted on, 11-17; attitude toward spelling reform, 18, 19; and Cleveland's Venezuela Message, 26 _ff._; experiments with mescal, 35, 37; Chautauqua lectures, 40 _ff._; work on college committees, 45 _n._, at Faculty meetings, 45 _n._, lectures at Lowell Institute, 54 and _n._, 55; invited to deliver Gifford Lectures at Edinburgh, 55; Blood's strictures on his English, 59; on a proposed Medical License bill, 66 _ff._; on the Spanish War, 73, 74; corresponding member of Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques, 75; a memorable night in the Adirondacks, 75-77.

Effect on his health of misadventures in the Adirondack, 78, 79, 90, 91; two years of exile and illness, 92 _ff._; an individualist and a liberal, 93; opposed to Philippine policy of McKinley administration, 93, 94; his teaching limited to a half-course a year, 171; lectures and contributions to philosophic journals, 171; strain on his strength, 171; the spirit in which he did his work, 172, 173; receives LL.D. from Harvard, 173 and _n._; replies to Prof. Pratt's _Questionnaire_, 212-215; at Philosophical Congress at Rome, 219, 220, 225 _ff._; lectures at Stanford University, 220, 235, 240, 244 and _n._; and the San Francisco earthquake, 220, 246 _ff._; _Pragmatism_, 220; resigns his professorship, 220, 266 and _n._; the last meeting of his class, 220, 221, 262.

Declining health, 283, 333; lectures on Hibbert Foundation at Oxford, 283, 284; uncompleted projects, 284; his attitude toward war, 284, 285, and universal arbitration, 285; tolerance fundamental in his scheme of belief, 286; his report on "Mrs. Piper's Hodgson control," 286, 287; last months in Europe, 333 _ff._; farewell to Harvard Faculty, 334; returns to Chocorua, 350; the end, 350.

Letters containing moral counsel, or touching upon problems of _Belief_, =2=, 57, 65, 76, 77, 149, 150, 196, 197, 210, 211, 212-215, 269, 326, 344-346; _Conduct_, =1=, 77-79, 100, 128 _ff._, 148, 199, 200, =2=, 131, 132; _Life and Death_, =1=, 218-220, 309-311, =2=, 130, 154.

WORKS OF:-- "Address of the President before the Society for Psychical Research," =2=, 30 and _n._ "Bain and Renouvier," 1, 186. _Briefer Course_ (abridgment of the _Principles of Psychology_), =1=, 300, 301, 304, 314. "Brute and Human Intellect," =1=, 180. "Certain Blindness in Human Beings, A," =2=, 5. _Collected Essays and Reviews_, =1=, 225 _n._, =2=, 20 _n._, 287, 295 _n_. "Confidences of a Psychical Researcher," =2=, 327 and _n._ "Dilemma of Determinism, The," =1=, 237 and _n._, 238. "Does Consciousness Exist?" _See_ "Notion de Conscience, La." "Energies of Men, The," =2=, 252, 284. "Feeling of Effort, The," =1=, 207. "Frederick Myers's Service to Psychology," =2=, 151 and _n._ "German-American Novel, A." =1=, 104 _n._ Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion, =J.= invited to deliver, =2=, 55; preparing for, 85, 92, 93; delivered, 144 _ff._; success of, 147, 149, 150, 151; outline of, 150; published as _Varieties of Religious Experience_, 169; mentioned, 75, 96, 97, 105, 108, 111, 115, 127, 134, =2=, 162, 164, 165. And _see_ _Varieties of Religious Experience_, _infra_. "How Two Minds can Know One Thing," =2=, 217 and _n._ _Human Immortality_, =2=, 180 and _n._ "Introspective Psychology, On Some Omissions of," =1=, 230. "Knight-Errant of the Intellectual Life, A," =2=, 107 _n._ Lowell Institute Lectures, =2=, 54 and _n._, 55. _Meaning of Truth, The_, =2=, 20 _n._, 327. _Memories and Studies_, =1=, 153, 226 _n._, 229 _n._, =2=, 39 _n._, 59 _n._, 107 _n._, 151 _n._, 193, 247, 285 _n._, 287, 327 _n._ "Moral Equivalent of War, The," =2=, 284. "Notion de Conscience, La," =2=, 226 and _n._, 267 and _n._ "Perception of Space, The," =1=, 266 _n._ "Perception of Time, The," =1=, 266. "Philosophic Reveries," =2=, 339. "Philosophical Conceptions and Practical Results," =2=, 5. _Philosophy, Some Problems of_, =1=, 144 _n._, 186. _Pluralistic Mystic, A._ (lectures on Hibbert Foundation), =2=, 39 _n._, 300, 311, 313, 322, 324, 325, 326, 339. _Pragmatism_, =2=, 17, 276, 279, 292, 294, 295, 300; translated by W. Jerusalem, 297. "Pragmatism's Conception of Truth," =2=, 271 and _n._ "Proposed Shortening of the College Course," =2=, 45 _n._ _Psychology, Principles of_, =1=, 194, 203, 223, 224, 249, 268, 269, 283, 293 _ff._, 296, 297, 300, 301, 304 and _n._, 305, 307, 320, =2=, 12, 13. "Quelques Considérations sur la Méthode Subjective," =1=, 180. _Radical Empiricism, Essays in_, =2=, 267 _n._ "Radical Empiricism, Is it Solipsistic?" =2=, 218. "Radical Empiricism as a Philosophy," =2=, 197 _n._ _Selected Essays and Reviews_, =2=, 271. "Sentiment of Rationality, The," =1=, 203 and _n._ "Shaw Monument, Oration on Unveiling of," =2=, 59, 60. "Spatial Quale, The," =1=, 205 and _n._ "Spencer's Definition of Mind as Correspondence," =1=, 180. _Talks to Teachers and Students on Some of Life's Problems_, =2=, 4, 5, 40, 79, 286. "Tigers in India, The," =2=, 20 _n._ _Varieties of Religious Experience._ (Gifford Lectures), =1=, 145-147, 293, =2=, 169, 170, 209, 210, 268. "What Psychical Research has Accomplished," =1=, 229 and _n._, 306. "_Will to Believe, The_," =2=, 44, 48, 85, 87, 88, 207, 208, 209, 282. _Will to Believe, The, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy_, =1=, 229 _n._, 237 _n._, 280 _n._, =2=, 4, 5, 34, 58 _n._, 64. "Word More about Truth, A," =2=, 295. _See_ also list of Dates at the beginning of Volume I, and the partial bibliography (Appendix II, _infra_).

James, Mrs. William (Alice Gibbens), =1=, 192, 193, 195, 196, 217, 218, 232, 237, 247, 269, 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 286, 288, 294, 297, 298, 316, 319, 321, 325, 328, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 346, =2=, 5, 7, 8, 9, 20, 24, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 52, 59, 60, 63, 92, 93, 96, 97, 110, 111, 112, 113, 129, 134, 145, 147, 158, 159, 161, 165, 175, 176, 182, 187, 188, 193, 215, 223, 233, 247, 250, 256, 258, 259, 275, 312, 313, 333, 334, 338, 350. _See Contents._

James, William (=J.='s son), birth of, =1=, 234; mentioned, 237, 260, 275, 276, 277, 282, 329, 330, 336, 346, =2=, 92, 98, 129, 159, 174, 175, 185, 186, 187, 250, 258, 259, 274, 275, 276. _See Contents._

Jameson Raid, =2=, 27.

Janet, Pierre, =2=, 216, 217, 226, 254.

Janet, Mme. Pierre, =2=, 216.

Jap, a dog, =1=, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279.

Jefferies, Richard, _The Life of the Fields_, =2=, 258, 259.

Jeffries, B. Joy, =1=, 163.

Jerome, W. T., =2=, 264.

Jerusalem, W. _See Contents._

Jevons, F. B., =2=, 306.

"Jimmy," students' name for the _Briefer Course_, =1=, 301.

Johns Hopkins University, =J.= declines invitation to teach at, =1=, 203.

Johnson, Alice, =2=, 311.

_Journal of Speculative Philosophy_, =1=, 266, =2=, 339.

Jung-Stilling, Johann K., _Autobiography_, =1=, 155.

Kallen, Horace M., =2=, 271.

Kant, Immanuel, _Kritik der reinen Vernunft_, =1=, 138, =2=, 179; =J.= lectures on, 45, 47, 51, 54; mentioned, =1=, 117, 141, 191, 202, 205, =2=, 3.

Kaulbach, W. von, =1=, 90.

Keane, Bishop, =1=, 294.

Keene Valley, Adirondacks, =J.='s summer holidays in, =1=, 194, 195, 196; an eventful 24 hours, and its effect, =2=, 75-79, 95; his further misadventure, 90, 91; mentioned, =1=, 232, =2=, 51, 259, 261, 296, 297.

Kipling, Rudyard, _The Light that Failed_, =1=, 307; mentioned, =2=, 21, 22, 231.

Kitchin, George W., =2=, 306.

Knox, H. V., =2=, 313, 314.

Kruger, Paul, =2=, 27.

Kolliker, R. A. von, =1=, 123.

Kosmos, the startling discoveries concerning, =1=, 101.

Kühnemann, Eugen, =2=, 263.

La Farge, Bancel, =2=, 275.

La Farge, John, =1=, 24, 91, =2=, 173.

Lamar, Lucuis Q. C., =1=, 251.

Lamb, Charles, =2=, 239.

Lamb House, Rye, Henry James's English home, =2=, 107, 111.

Lawrence Scientific School, Chemical laboratory in, =1=, 31; C. W. Eliot quoted on =J.='s course in, 31, 32 and _n._

Leibnitz, Baron G. W. von, =2=, 13.

Lemaître, Jules, =2=, 63.

_Leonardo_, =2=, 227, 228, 245.

Leopardi, Giacomo, "To Sylvia," =1=, 246 and _n._

Lesley, Susan I., _Recollections of my Mother_, =2=, 135 and _n._

Lessing, Gotthold E., _Emilia Galotti_, =1=, 91; Fischer's Essay on _Nathan der Weise_, 94.

Leuba, James H., =2=, 210, 211, 218. _See Contents._

Lincoln, Abraham, effect of his death, =1=, 66, 67; characterized by =J.=, 67.

Linville, N. C., =1=, 316, 317.

Lister, Sir Joseph, =1=, 72.

Lloyd, Henry D., =2=, 166.

Locke, John, =1=, 191, =2=, 165, 257.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, =2=, 30.

Lodge, Sir Oliver, =1=, 229 _n._

Loeser, Charles A., =1=, 337, 339.

Lombroso, Cesar, =2=, 15.

London, =1=, 175, =2=, 307.

London, _Times_, =2=, 43, 65, 118.

Long, George, =1=, 78.

Loring, Katharine P., =1=, 259, 262, 311, 316.

Lotze, Rudolf H., =1=, 206, 208.

Loubet, Émile, President of France, =2=, 89, 98.

Lowell, A. Lawrence, =2=, 326.

Lowell, James Russell, death of, =1=, 314, 315 _n._; =J.='s memory of, 315; mentioned, 195.

Lucerne, =2=, 133.

Ludwig, Karl F. W., =1=, 72, 160, 215.

Lutoslawski, W., =2=, 103, 171. _See Contents._

McDougall, William, =2=, 313, 314, 315.

McKinley, William, and the Spanish War, =2=, 74; Philippine Policy of his administration disapproved by =J.=, 93, 94, 289; and Roosevelt, =J.='s description of, 94; mentioned, 50, 101, 102, 109.

MacMonnies, F. W., Bacchante, =2=, 62 and _n._, 63.

Macaulay, Thomas B., Lord, =1=, 225.

Mach, Ernst, =1=, 211, 212.

Maine, U. S. S., explosion of, =2=, 73.

Manchester College. _See_ Hibbert Foundation.

Marcus Aurelius, =1=, 78, 79.

Marshall, Henry Rutgers, _Instinct and Reason_, =1=, 87. _See Contents_.

Martin, L. J., =2=, 246, 249.

Martineau, James, =1=, 283.

Mascagni, Pietro, _I Rantzau_, =1=, 334, 335.

Massachusetts General Hospital, =1=, 71, 72.

Materialism, =1=, 82, 83.

Maudsley, Henry, =1=, 143.

Maupassant, Guy de, =1=, 282.

Medical License bill (proposed), in Mass., =2=, 66 _ff._

Mediums, =1=, 228, =2=, 287, 311. And _see_ Paladino, Eusapia, and Piper, Mrs.

Mental Hygiene, Connecticut Society for, =2=, 273; National Committee for, 273.

Merriman, Daniel. _See Contents._

Merriman, Mrs. Daniel, =2=, 118.

Merriman, R. B., =2=, 63, 66, 132, 175.

Mescal, =J.='s experiment with, =2=, 35, 37.

Metaphysical problems, =J.='s mind haunted by, =2=, 2.

Metaphysics, outline of course offered by =J.= in, =2=, 3, 4; =J.='s proposed system of, 179, 180.

Meysenbug, Malwida von, _Memoiren einer Idealistin_, =2=, 135 and _n._

Mezes, Sidney E., =2=, 14.

Mill, John Stuart, =1=, 164, =2=, 267.

Miller, Dickinson S., quoted, on =J.= as a teacher and lecturer, =2=, 11-17; "Truth and Error," 18; quoted, on =J.='s talks with Columbia Faculty Club, 265 _n._; his "study" of =J.=, 331, 332; mentioned, 87, 88, 137, 163, 232 _n._, 282. _See Contents._

_Mind_, =1=, 254, 255.

Mind-curers. _See_ Faith-curers.

Miracles, =2=, 57, 58.

Mitchell, S. Weir, =2=, 37.

Monism, =1=, 238, 244, 245.

Montgomery, Edmund, =1=, 254, 255.

Morgan, C. Lloyd, =2=, 216.

Moritz, C. P., =1=, 141.

Morley, John, _Voltaire_, =1=, 144 _n._

Morse, Frances R., =1=, 197, =2=, 106, 113, 232. _See Contents._

Morse, Mary. _See_ Elliot, Mrs. John W.

Morse, John T., =2=, 10.

Motterone, Monte, =1=, 324.

Müller, G. E., =1=, 312, 313.

Munich Congress, =2=, 46, 50.

Munk, H., =1=, 213, 114.

Münsterberg, Hugo, recommended by =J.= as head of Harvard Psychological Laboratory, =1=, 301, 302; "the Rudyard Kipling of philosophy," 318; "an immense success," 332; criticizes =J.=, =2=, 267, 268; mentioned, =1=, 312, =2=, 2, 18, 121, 229, 270, 293, 320. _See Contents._

Murray, Gilbert, =2=, 271.

Musset, Alfred de, =2=, 63.

Myers, F. W. H., _Human Personality_, =1=, 229 _n._, =2=, 151, 185 and _n._; death of, 141; =J.='s tribute to, 141, 151, 157; mentioned, =1=, 287, 290, =2=, 57, 114, 118, 156, 157, 161. _See Contents._

Myers, Mrs. F. W. H., =1=, 290, 345, =2=, 151, 157.

Naples, =2=, 222.

_Nation, The_, review of _Literary Remains of Henry James_ in, =1=, 240, 241; =J.='s comments on, 284; and Cleveland's Venezuela Message, =2=, 28; mentioned, =1=, 70, 92, 104 and _n._, 117, 118, 161, 186, 188, 189, =2=, 42, 182, 332.

Nauheim (Bad), =2=, 92, 93, 95, 104, 107, 134, 135, 157, 158, 160, 333, 338.

Neilson, Adelaide, =1=, 168.

Nevins, John C., _Demon Possession and Allied Themes_, =2=, 56 and _n._

New Forest, The, =2=, 160, 161.

_New Jerusalem Messenger_, H. James, Senior's, letter to editor of, =1=, 14-16.

_New World, The_, =1=, 334, =2=, 44.

New York City, =2=, 264, 265.

Newcomb, Simon, =1=, 250.

Newport, R. I., =2=, 202, 203.

Newton, Sir Isaac, =2=, 1 _n._

Nichols, Herbert, =1=, 335, =2=, 14.

Nietzsche, Friedrich W., =2=, 233.

Nivedita, Sister, =2=, 144.

Nonentity, Idea of, =2=, 293.

Nordau, Max S., _Entartung_, =2=, 19; mentioned, 17.

Norton, Charles Eliot, Ruskin's letters to, =2=, 206; mentioned, =1=, 181, 291, 331, 338, 347, =2=, 191, 199. _See Contents._

Norton, Grace, =1=, 284, =2=, 191. _See Contents._

Norton, Mrs. Charles E. (Susan Sedgwick), =1=, 181.

Norton Woods, the, =2=, 201.

Olney, Richard, and the Venezuela Message, =2=, 27, 29.

Optimism, =1=, 83, 238.

Oregon, forest fires in, =2=, 80.

Ostensacken, Baron, =1=, 337, 339.

Ostwald, W., =2=, 229.

Oxford, =2=, 307.

Padua, Galileo anniversary at, =1=, 333 and _n._; University of, confers degree on =J.=, 333.

Pædagogy, =2=, 47.

Paladino, Eusapia, =2=, 186 and _n._, 311, 320, 327.

Paley, William, =1=, 283.

Pallanza, Italy, =1=, 329.

Palmer, George H., a Hegelian, =1=, 205, 208; investigates psychic phenomena with =J.=, 227; mentioned, 202, 292, 335, =2=, 2, 18. _See Contents._

Palmer, Mrs. Alice Freeman, =2=, 124.

Papini, Giovanni, _Crepuscolo dei Filosofi_, =2=, 245, 246; mentioned, 172, 227, 228, 229, 257, 267.

Paris, =1=, 174, 175, 217.

Paris Commune (1871), =1=, 161.

Parkman, Francis, =2=, 10.

Parkman, Mrs. Henry, =2=, 205.

Parthenon, the, =2=, 224, 225.

Party spirit, the only permanent force of corruption in the U. S., =2=, 100.

Pasteur, Louis, =1=, 72, 225.

Paty du Clam, Colonel du, =2=, 98.

Paulsen, Friederich, _Einleitung_, =1=, 346, =2=, 244.

Peabody, Elizabeth, =1=, 112.

Peabody, Frances G., =2=, 229.

Peace Congress, =2=, 277.

Peillaube, M., =2=, 228, 229.

Peirce, Benjamin, =1=, 32.