and it is not strange that, while still in the vigor of age, the cord should snap by its strain, that the pitcher should be broken at the fountain. In the midst of his work he had a paralytic stroke, the natural result of such mental efforts. After he was taken ill he would do prodigies of work, and often dictate from his bed while in pain and in mental weariness. In 1830 he had a stroke of paralysis. Even after this he finished his two last novels, Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous. In the autumn of 1831 he went to Italy in the vain hope of restoration, but returned to Abbotsford in the summer of 1832 to spend his last days in his beloved home. He called one day for his pen; but the hand that had been so untiring could not hold it, it dropped from his grasp. The tears rolled down his cheeks as he bade farewell in that last effort to the work which was his life, and from that time he failed rapidly; and Sept. 17, 1832, at the age of sixty-one, he died. His death and the close of his work seem to me to form a fit point at which to close the story of English literature. About the time that he passed off the stage there were entering upon it some of the men now foremost in the literature of to-day, the living authors upon whom Time has not yet passed its verdict. With the death of Scott, therefore, I leave the history of the literature of the past. The history of the literature of our living writers belongs to the future. CENTRAL REBERVE INDEX. ABBOTSFORD, home of Sir Walter | Ballads, Early English, 50; Robin Scott, 424. Addison, Joseph, life and works, 264; Adonaïs, poem by Shelley, quoted, Akenside, Mark, poems of, 297. Alexander's Feast, ode by Dryden, Alfred the Great, account of, 37; Alliteration, characteristic of Northern America, discovery of, its influence on Ancren Riwle, quoted, 55. Angles, their position in Europe, 20, Arabs, in Italy and Spain, 42. Arthur, king of Britain, 46, 47, 83. Ascham, Roger, schoolmaster of Queen Austen, Jane, novels of, 326, 411. BACON, FRANCIS, life, 116; essays, Hood ballad quoted, 51. 220. Battle of the Baltic, poem by Camp- Baxter, Richard, eminent divine, 220. Beaumont, Francis, life and works, II. Beda, The Venerable, literary work of, Beggar's Opera, The, quoted from, Beowulf, oldest English poem, 27; Bible, first brought to England, 25; Boethius, works of, translated by King Boswell, James, biography of Dr. Britain, first inhabitants, 21; its con- Britons, a Kymric people, 21. Brut, The, poem by Layamon, 55. Bunyan, John, life and writings, 221; 220. Burney, Fanny, life and novels, 319; | Cowper, William, account of, 336; extract from novels, 320. Butler, Samuel, writings of, 207. CEDMON, account of, 34; poem by, Cæsar, Julius, invades Britain, 21. Campaspe, play by Lyly, extract from, Campbell, Thomas, poems of, 364. Carew, Thomas, poems of, 177. Castaway, The, poem by Cowper, Cavaliers, character of, 186. poems of, quoted, 337-339. Cromwell, Oliver, Lord Protector, 187; DANES, war with English, 40; con- 41. Daniel, Samuel, poems of, 115. De Foe, Daniel, account of, 257; ex- Dekker, Thomas, extracts from, 164. Denmark, voyage in, 38; Northmen De Quincey, Thomas, writings of, 410. Caxton, William, life and work of, 80. Deserted Village, extract from, 317. Cedric the Saxon, 29. Cecil, Robert, 114. Chapman, George, translator of Ho- Charles I., King, affairs in his reign, 69; his Canterbury Tales, 71-80. Cnut, king of England, 41; song Colonel Jack, De Foe's novel, extract Collins, William, poems of, 295. Complete Angler, The, description of, 220. Condell, Henry, edits Shakespeare, Confessio Amantis, by Gower, 68. Cornwall, Britons settle in, 22. Donne, John, life of, 170; extracts Drama, English, sudden rise of, 121; Drayton, Michael, poems of, 115. Dryden, John, life and writings, 229; EDDIUS, writes first English biogra- Edgeworth, Maria, novels of, 325; Edinburgh Review, criticises Byron, Cressy, 57; pensions Chaucer, 70. Egwin, Bishop, writes first English Elaine, story of, 82. Eleanor, queen of England, 45. Cowley, Abraham, life and works, 203; English language, displaced by Latin, extracts from poems, 205. 36; Gospels translated into, 37; struggles against foreign tongues, | Gower, John, 61; works of, 68; com- 49; establishment in England, 57. Essay on Man, quoted, 249. Evelina, Miss Burney's novel, extract Evelyn, John, life and works, 212; ex- Eve of St. Agnes, poem, extract from, Exeter Book, extract from, 32. FAIRY QUEEN, account of, 100; ex- Farquhar, George, comedy writer, 286. Faustus, play by Marlowe, extracts Ferrex and Porrex, first English Fielding, Henry, account of, 303. Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 65; work of, 220. GAIMAR, Geoffrey, Anglo-Norman Galahad, Knight of Round Table, 47, 82. Gay, John, life and works, 253. Germany, minstrels in, 44. Goodwin, William, novel of, 411. Goths, a Teutonic tribe, 20. pliment to Chaucer, 69; works pub- Gray, Thomas, account of, 293; poems Gregory the Great, Pope, 25. Greville, Fulke, Lord Brooke, 113. HAMLET, play of, extract from, 146. Hebrews, of Semitic race, 25; influence Hengist, invades Britain, 22. Henry II., King, literature in his Henry III., King, issues proclamation Henry VIII., King, events of his Henry of Huntingdon, 45. Henry, Prince, son of James I., 186. Herrick, Robert, life and works of, Holcroft, Thomas, works of, 411. |