Tomb of Necker and de Staël

Some rods distant from the château, shaded by a sombre grove and bounded by a hoary wall, is the picturesque chapel in which Necker is laid with his wife, to whose tomb he, for many years, daily came to pray. In the same crypt the mortal part of de Staël rests at his feet; the portal was walled up at her burial and eye hath not since seen her sepulchre. A stone which marks the grave of her son Auguste, and lies on the threshold of that sealed portal, is fittingly inscribed, "Why seek ye the living among the dead?"

Beyond the closed gate we pause for a parting view of the scene now flooded with sunshine, and as we leave the place we carry thence that resplendent vision embalmed in a memory that I will abide with us forever. As I write these closing lines I see again that summer sky, cloudless save for the fleece floating above Jura like that which the bereaved Necker fancied was bearing the soul of his wife to paradise. I see again the glimmering water; the mountains with their tiaras of snow, sending back the sunbeams from their shining peaks like reflections from the pearly gates that enclose the Celestial City; and, amid this sublime beauty, the gleaming sycamores that sway above the tomb of "the incomparable Corinna."

INDEX

Abbotsford,-Scott,-161.

Addison, 15, 19, 30, 36, 91.

Akenside, 16, 25.

Andersen, Hans Christian, 55, 57.

Annesley Hall and Park, 71–77.

Aram, Eugene; Scenes, 111, 144–147.

Arbuthnot, 16, 36.

Arnold, Dr. and Matthew, 92.

Astell, Mary, 30.

Bacon, 21.

Baillie, Joanna, 15.

Barbauld, Mrs., 14, 16.

Besant, 15, 18.

Bolingbroke, 37.

Bolton Abbey, 143.

Bonnivard, Francis, 227.

Bowes, Dotheboys, 106.

Braddon, Miss, 38.

Brontës, The, 68; Brussels, 134, 207; Haworth, 121;
Scenes and Characters of Tales, 121, 124, 126, 127,

129, 135, 207-225.

Brown, Oliver Madox, 32.

Brussels,-Villette,-Brontë Scenes, 207.
Bulwer,-Eugene Aram,-144-147.

Burns; Alloway, 181; Dumfries 164; Ellisland, 171;
Grave, 165; Haunts,-Scenes of Poems,-164, 165,
166, 170, 171, 178, 181, 196, 200, 205; Heroines,
185, 190, 194; Niece, 183.

Butler, Samuel, 91.

Byron; Annesley, 71; Coppet, 250; Harrow, 69;
Newstead, 80; Leman 226-237; London, 62;

Scenes of Poems, 69, 72-77, 80-90, 226, 232, 233,

251; Tomb, 70.

Caine, Hall, mentioned, 32.

Campbell, 66, 68.

Canning, 64.

Carlyle, Birthplace, 162; Homes, 33, 162, 167; Sepulchre,

163.

Chaucer, 24, 25, 50.

Chaworth, Mary Ann, 71–79.

Chelsea, 29-37.

Chillon, 233.

Clarens,-Rousseau,-232.

Coleridge, 19, 106; Grave, 22; Home, 21.

Collyer, Robert, Early Haunts, 136.

Colwick Hall,-Chaworth-Musters,-78.
Congreve, mentioned, 15, 30, 37.
Constant, 245, 246, 248, 251, 252.
Cooling,-Great Expectations,-57.
Coppet,-Madame de Staël,-244.
Coventry,-George Eliot,-102.
Coxwold,-Sterne,-113.
Crabbe, mentioned, 19, 66.

Craigenputtock,-Carlyle,-167.
Crockett, S. R., 178.

Cunningham, Allan, 164.

Davy, Sir Humphry, mentioned, 155, 159, 248.
Denham, mentioned, 40.

De Quincey, mentioned, 21, 62.

De Staël, 159, 228, 230; Home and Sepulchre, 244.

Dickens, 13, 19, 20, 24, 28, 34, 230; Gad's Hill, 49;
Scenes of Tales, 18-20, 22, 24-28, 54, 57–61, 64,
106.

Donne, John, 35, 36.

Dorset, Shaftesbury,—15, 36.

Index

Dotheboys,-Nicholas Nickleby,-106.
Douglas, Poet of Annie Laurie, 175-179.
Du Maurier, 18, 20.
Dumfries,-Burns,-164.

Dyer, 91.

Ecclefechan,-Carlyle,-162.

Eliot, George, 31, 143; Birthplace, Early Homes, 93;
Grave, 23; Scenes and Characters of Fiction, 93, 95-

103.

Emerson, 34, 104, 169, 170.

Erasmus, mentioned, 36.

Fairfax, Edward, 137, 142.

Falstaff, 50, 55, 56, 58.
Ferney, Voltaire,-238.

Fields, James T., 55, 59.

Foston,-Sydney Smith,-149.
Froude, 33.

Gad's Hill,-Dickens, Shakespeare,—49.

Gaskell, Mrs., 101, 130, 131, 215, 223.
Gay, 15, 30, 33, 34.

Geneva, 227.

Gibbon, 39, 63; On Leman, 231, 232, 249, 252.

Goldsmith, mentioned, 18.

Gray,-Scene of Elegy,—39.

Hampstead, Literary, 13.

Harridan, Mrs., 15.

Harrow, Byron,-18, 69.

Haworth, The Brontës,- -121.

Hawthorne, 68, 71, 184.

Hazlitt, mentioned, 19, 21, 170.

Herbert, George, 36.

Heslington, Sydney Smith,-148.

Highgate, Literary, 21.

Highland Mary,-Homes, Scenes, Grave,-195.