Lopez (Narciso), his conspiracy in Cuba, cxxxviii. 398; his defeat and execution, 399

Lords (House of), creation of twelve new peers by Harley, cxviii. 420; importance of, in the reign of Anne, ib. and note

their trimming resolutions in 1627 on the liberty of the subject, cxx. 23; attempt to neutralise the Petition of Right, 25

conflicts of, with the Commons since 1846, cxxvi. 557; apathy reawakened in 1867, 558; their amendments of the Reform Bill of 1867, 559

presence of Bishops in, vindicated, cxxviii. 271

hostility of, to the Court in the reign of Anne, cxxxii. 531

constitution of, vindicated, cxxxvi. 113 Lorraine,Claude. See Claude Lorraine Lorraine (Charles, Cardinal of, 1525– 1574), his overtures to the Duke of Wurtemburg against the Huguenots, cxxiv. 93 Lorraine, history of, in the feudal ages, cxii. 59; growth of the Tiers État in, 61; state of, under Charles III., 62; French invasion of, 69: abdication of Charles IV., ib.; his restoration, 71; French invasion renewed, 72; foreign influence of Charles V., 77; prosperity of, revived by Leopold, 83; decline of loyalty and patriotism, 84; ceded to Stanislas Leczinski, b.; annexation by France, 85; popular acquiescence therein, 86; fusion soon completed, 87

feudal house of, romances of, cxv. 369.

cession of, in 1648, to France, cxxxiii. 479. See Alsace and Lorraine

'Lothair,' Mr. Disraeli's novel of, exxxii. 275; obtrusive allusion contained in his hero, 277; cari

catures of contemporaries, 280; extravagant outline of the story, 282; characteristic allusion to Palestine, ib.; conversion of Lothair, 283; protest against materialism, 284; animus against the Papal system, 285; pictures of Republicanism, 286; sketches of English society, 287; peculiarities of style, 288 Loughborough (Alexander Wedderburn, Lord, d. 1805), his political intrigue, cxiii. 384; his practical ability displayed in his letters, 385

Louis IX. (of France, St. Louis, 1215-1270), compared with King Alfred, cxxx. 201; Dean Milman on his military incapacity, 202 Louis XI. (of France, 1423-1483), his character and appearance, cxix. 530; social corruption in his reign, 531; his lessons in Italian statecraft, ib.; takes refuge, when Dauphin, with Philip of Burgundy, 537; suspected of poisoning Agnes Sorel, 538; his aversion to his father, 539; his coronation at Reims, ib.; his ridicule of feudal pomp at a tournament at Paris, 540; his mean apparel, ib.; his immorality and love of irony, ib.; recovers the towns of the Somme from the House of Burgundy, 541; his first quarrel with Charles the Bold, 542; coalition of nobles against, ib.; his unpopular edicts against hunting, ib.; blockaded by the allies at Paris, 543; deserted by the Liégois, 547; his perfidious overtures to Charles the Bold, 551; appeals to the States-General, 553; reconquers Normandy, ib.; his forced treaty with Charles at Péronne, 555; marches with Charles against Liège, 556; his political relations. with England, 560; promotes the Swiss League, 571

Louis XI. (of France), his relations
with Richard III., cxxi. 201

his hostility to municipal
institutions, cxxxiv. 264
Louis XII. (of France, 1462-1515),
his marriage with Mary Tudor,
cxxiii. 254; his demeanour, ib.;
his death, 256

Louis XIV. (of France, 1638-1715),
his relations with Lorraine, cxii.
59

his original statue in Paris,
Cxv. 552

his terms of peace with the
Grand Alliance, cxvi. 528; rejects
the counter demands, 530; his
negotiations renewed after Mal-
plaquet, 535

his character, by St. Simon,
cxix. 91

his early toleration of the
Huguenots, cxxi. 500; his ruth-
less persecution, 502, 509

his corpse disinterred at St.
Denis in 1793, cxxiv. 362; re-
moved to the Invalides, 363; his
shoe preserved by the Duchess de
Berry, 371; his copybook at St.
Petersburg, 377

his later misgovernment,
CXXV. 471

corruption of society in his
reign, cxxxviii. 322; conspiracies
and crimes, 323, 325; the plot of
1673, 326

Louis XV. (of France, 1710-1775),
Marie Antoinette's account of his
death, cxxiii. 431

recent publications respect-
ing, cxxv. 470; moral significance
of his reign, ib.; his early tuition,
472; beauty as a child, 473 note;
evil influence of the two Regents,
ib. 474; his inauspicious marriage,
475, 476; description of the
Queen, ib.; ascendancy of Fleury,
477; Polish and Austrian succes-
sions, 478, 480; dullness of the
Court under Fleury, ib.; perni-

cious influence of Richelieu, 482;
his sudden outburst of wild gaiety,
ib.; the Belle Inconnue, ib. 483;
debauches at Versailles, ib.; his
incestuous amours, 484; influence
of Madame de Vintimille, 486;
his support of Prussia, ib.; opera-
tions in Flanders, 488; efforts at
reform, ib.; popular contempt of,
489; his new mistress. the

Duchess of Châteauroux, 490;
abandoned to looseness, 491; joins
the army, 493; his illness at Metz,
494;
his sudden popularity, ib.
495; his mistress Madame de
Pompadour, 497; infamies at the
Parc aux Cerfs, 503; popular
hatred of him, ib.; disputes with
Parliament, 506; stabbed by
Damiens, ib.; contest with Eng-
land and Prussia, ib. 507; the
Peace of Paris, 508; death of
Madame de Pompadour, 509; rise
of Madame du Barry, 510; revolt-
ing scene at his death-bed, 511;
his last words, 512; his mania
for speculating in corn, ib.; his
secret diplomacy, ib.; his cyni-
cism and hypocrisy, 513 note; long
and shameful reign, ib. ; his cha-
racter the product of his age, 514
Louis XVI. (of France, 1754-1793),
his conduct at his execution,
cxviii. 121; Voltaire's remark on
his weak character, 142; he could
not have averted the Revolution,
143

338

his last moments, cxix.

his letter to Maria Theresa
on his accession, cxxiii. 433; im-
aginary letters of, 439; his charac-
ter drawn from his real letters,
442; his bad faith with the As-
sembly, 443; insincere dealings
with the Revolution, 445

his alleged worship of the
Sacred Heart a fabrication, cxxxix.
251

Louis XVII. See Dauphin, the
Louis XVIII. (of France, 1755-
1824), state of France at his re-
storation, cxxv. 323; his dignified
demeanour, 326; interview with
M. Beugnot, 327; his conduct
during the Hundred Days, 329
Louis Napoleon. See Napoleon III.
Louis Philippe (1773-1850), his
first cabinet, cxxxv. 361; Fieschi's
attempt on his life, 363

his imprudent retention of
the Guizot ministry, cxxxix, 545
Louis Ferdinand (Prince of Prussia,
1772-1800), his character, cxxxi.
67; his death at Saalfeld, 68
Louis of Orleans. See Orleans
Louisiana (U.S.), Livingston's re-
form of the criminal code of, cxx.
204

origin of the penal code of,
cxxvi. 362
Lourdes, pretended apparition of Our
Lady at, cxxxix. 246; the girl
Soubirous, 247; the miraculous
fountain, ib.; pilgrimages to, 248;
comical challenge of M. Artus, ib. ;
M. Barbaste's narrative, ib.; su-
perstitious belief in modern mira-
cles, 249

Louvain, Scottish missionary college
at, cxix. 198

Louvois (François Michel Letellier,
Marquis de, 1641-1691), his army
organisation, exxvi. 271

his instructions respecting
the custody of the Iron Mask,
cxxxviii. 307; conspiracies foiled
by him, 325

Lovat (Simon Fraser, Lord, 1667-
1746), his mixture of blandness
and ferocity, cxii. 336
Lovell (American Confederate Gene-
ral), his unsuccessful defence of
New Orleans, cxxiv. 201, 209
Low Church. See Evangelical
Lowe (Sir Hudson, 1766--1844), his
sketch of Leipsic, exvi. 75
Lowe (Right Hon. Robert, b. 1811),

his evidence on Australian defence,
cxv. 110; on the withdrawal of
British troops, 114; on colonial
independence, 125

Lowe (Right Hon. Robert), his Re-
vised Code of Education, cxx. 587
his evidence on the Inns of

Court, cxxxiv. 501

his objections to paternal
government, cxxxvi. 92

his allusions to Education in
his Edinburgh Address of 1867,
cxxxix. 216 note

Lowth (Robert, Bishop of London,
1710-1787), his quarrel with
Warburton, cxxii. 30; Dr. John-
son's estimate of, 31
Lubbock (Sir John, b. 1834), his
'Prehistoric Times,' cxxxii. 439;
adopts Cuvier's method in the
restoration of fossil mammals,
440; his division of prehistoric
time, 441; wrongly criticised in
the Quarterly Review, ib.; his idea
of ages,' 442; hypothesis of
primitive intermixture of animals,
445; mistakes respecting the rein-
deer, 457; his 'Neolithic' age,
463; on the supposed Phoenician
origin of bronze, 474; his appeal
to archæology examined, 479
Lucan (Marcus Annæus Lucanus,
37-65), passage in his 'Pharsalia'
(vi. 186-8) ascribed to author's
variation of original text, cxxxvii.
69

Lucian (second century), his story of
the Celtic Hercules, cxviii. 49

compared with Plutarch,
cxxix. 79
Lücke (Professor) on the doubts at-
tached to St. John's Gospel, cxix.
587
Lucretius (Titus Carus, B.C. 98-55),
Lachmann's emendations in, cxxii.
240; general lucidity of his style,
241; contemporary opinions of,
245; modern eulogies, 246; his
didactic poetry unattractive, ib.

249; compared with Virgil, 250;
immaturity of his language, ib.;
inequalities of language, 251; his
child-like garrulity, ib.; De Quin-
cey's theory of his delirium, ib.;
vivid descriptions by, 252; on the
origin of society, 253; English
translations of, ib. 257
Lucretius (Titus Carus), foreshadows
the diffusibility of matter, cxxxiii.
159

slender knowledge of, in
early times, cxxxvii. 61; the
Leyden MSS. of, 67; his poems
probably published posthumously,
68; question of the lost arche-
type, 71; Niccoli's transcript, 74
Luke (Saint), M. Rénan's criticism
of his Gospel, cxix. 583
Lullier, leader of Paris Communists
in 1874, cxxxiv. 535; his charac-
ter and previous career, ib.
Lunacy Laws, inadequate to meet
all cases of insanity, cxii. 538
Lunatic Asylums, principles of isola-

tion criticised, cxxxi. 431; over-
growth of county asylums, 432;
conduct of attendants, 433; in-
adequate medical staff, 434; want
of occupation, 435; spirit of rou-
tine, ib.; popular illusions as to
desperate character of inmates,
436; indiscriminate system of re-
straint, 437; case of convalescents,
438; pauper-patients in Scotland,
443; advantages of the free-air
system, 444; supervision by paid
inspectors necessary, 445; the
cottage-system, ib.; thirty per cent.
of present inmates could be with-
drawn, 446; refusals of admission,
ib.

Lurch, meaning of the word in

Shakspeare, cxxx. 112

Lush, the adjective wrongly ex-

plained by Johnson, exxviii, 65
Lushington (Dr. Stephen), his judg-
ment in Essays and Reviews,'
cxx. 270

Lusk, prison establishment at, cxvii.
252

Lussac (Nicolas François Gay, b.
1778), his mode of preserving
meat, &c., cxxv. 396

his atomic theory of gases,

cxxx. 144

Luta N'zigé, Lake, visited by Speke,
cxviii. 216

wrongly considered a back-
water of the Nile, cxxiv. 159
Luther (Martin, 1483–1546), on bib-
lical inspiration, cxix. 144

Papal Bull for destruction of
his writings, cxxxiv. 168

his triumph against the
Papal system, cxxxvii. 534

on the value of advanced
learning applied to revealed truth,
cxxxix. 418 note

Lutheranism, modern modification
of extreme doctrines in, cxxxiii. 401
Luttrell (Henry, d. 1851), his light

poetry, cxl. 372; his rhymes on
'Burnham Beeches,' 373
Luxemburg, neutrality of, guaran-
teed by the Treaty of 1867,
cxxxiii. 278; the compact repu-
diated by Prussia, ib.; puerile
pretexts of Bismarck, 279; his
unfounded charges against, 280;
origin and nature of the Treaty,
282

Luxemburg Question, the, recent
solution of, cxxxii. 491
Luynes (Duke de, b. 1802), his Me-
moirs of the Court of Louis XV.,
CXXV. 470

Luzzara, battle of (1702), cxvi. 513
Lyall (A. C.), his edition of the

Gazetteer for Berar, cxxxvii. 225
Lyell (Sir Charles, 1797-1875), his
'Antiquity of Man,' exviii. 254;
his early education, ib. ; popularity
of his Principles of Geology,'
255; main idea of his work,
256; his investigations abroad,
257; Uniformitarians and Catas
trophists, 258; on Quaternary

Geology, 259; on the tests of antiquity applied to flint implements, 264; his twofold division of post-tertiary beds, 265; on the Post-Pliocene Age, 266; accepts the theory of M. Perthes, 268; on the classification of cave deposits, 277; believes in the co-existence of Man with the mammoth, ib. ; on the bone caves in the valley of the Meuse, 279; on the skull from Neanderthal, 280; on the sepulchral cave at Aurignac, 284; on fossil-bones in volcanic formations, 286; on the encroachment of river deltes into the sea, 287; on raised beaches, 290; his chronological scale of the elevation of continents criticised, 291; his neglect of demonstration, 295; his belief in Darwinism, ib.; his work not original, ib.

Lyell (Sir Charles), his theory of the glacial period, cxx. 471

Mr. Huxley on his uniformitarian theory of geology, cxxxi. 44 Lyndhurst (John Singleton Copley, Lord Chancellor, Baron, 17721863), his opposition to the Prisoners' Counsel Bill overcome, cxi. 192 note

his motion for postponing the disfranchising clauses of the Reform Bill, cxxv. 541

Life of, by Lord Campbell, cxxix. 556; his relations with Campbell, 557; his early life, 558; his democratic notions in youth, 559; his Jacobinism ascribed to Volney, 560; alleged looseness of his politics, 561; his judicial character, ib.; anecdotes of his indolence, 562; his views of office, 563; his contempt for mankind, ib.; his sneering propensities, 564; oddities on the Bench, ib.; he retarded Law Reform, ib. ; his conduct on irregular marriages,

565; his aversion to the Bench, ih.; his marriage, 566; his graceful appearance, ib.; passion for politics, 567; his reputation for unscrupulousness, ib.; his conduct in opposition, ib.; views on Reform, 568; his motion in 1832 for postponing disfranchisement to enfranchisement, ib.; his achievements for his party, 569; story of his being offered the Premiership between 1835 and 1841 disproved, ib.; his annual 'Reviews of the Session,' 570; his power founded on intellectual pre-eminence, ib. ; his lucid exposition, 571; his speeches on Lord Campbell's bill against obscene publications, ib. ; his later ascendancy over Brougham, 600 Lyndhurst (Lord), his speech as Mr. Copley on Watson's trial, cxxx.520 consulted by William IV. on the Coronation Oath, cxxxiii. 316

his comparison of Peel and the Duke of Wellington in the Cabinet, cxl. 543; Mr. Greville's sketch of, 548

Lyndsay (Sir James of), his murder of Kirkpatrick, cxl. 324; his trial and execution, ib.

Lynedoch (Thomas Graham, Lord, 1750-1843), Lord Cockburn's sketch of, in old age, cxl. 270 Lyrical poetry, richness of, in the reign of Elizabeth, cxl. 358, 363; minor poets of the Restoration, 364; of the present day, 375 Lyttleton (George William, Lord, the present, b. 1817), his Greek translation of Milton's 'Comus,' cxxiii. 365; and of the Lotus Eaters,' 372; his Latin version of Enone,' 373

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Lytton (Edward Bulwer, Lord, 1806-1873), his unfinished novel "The Parisians,' cxxxix. 383; his literary industry, 384; did not