Literature and Art.
NOTES FROM BOOKS:--
Dr. Arnold 198
Niebuhr 220
Lord Bacon 230
Chateaubriand 240
Bishop Cumberland 247
Comte's Philosophy 250
Goethe 261
Hazlitt's "Liber Amoris" 263
Francis Horner, "The Nightingale" 267
Thackeray's "English Humourists" 271
NOTES ON ART:--
Analogies 276
Definition of Art 279
No Patriotic Art 280
Verse and Colour 280
Dutch Pictures 281
Morals in Art 283
Physiognomy of Hands 288
Mozart and Chopin 289
Music 293
Rachel, the Actress 294
English and German Actresses 298
Character of Imogen 303
Shakspeare Club 305
"Maria Maddalena" 305
The Artistic Nature 307
Woman's Criticism 309
Artistic Influences 310
The Greek Aphrodite 311
Love, in the Greek Tragedy 312
Wilkie's Life and Letters 313
Wilhelm Schadow 317
Artist Life 321
Materialism in Art 323
A Fragment on Sculpture, and on certain Characters in
History and Poetry, considered as Subjects for Modern
Art 326
Helen of Troy 332
Penelope--Laodamia 336
Hippolytus 339
Iphigenia 343
Eve 347
Adam 350
Angels 351
Miriam--Ruth 354
Christ--Solomon--David 355
Hagar--Rebecca--Rachel--Queen of Sheba 356
Lady Godiva 357
Joan of Arc 359
Characters from Shakspeare 364
Characters from Spenser 366
From Milton. The Lady--Comus--Satan 367
From the Italian and Modern Poets 370
LIST OF ETCHINGS.
1. Fruits and Flowers. After an old drawing.
2. Out of my garden.
3. Virgin Martyrs. Thought. Memory. Fancy. After Benedetto
da Matera.
4. La Penserosa. After Ambrogio Lorenzette.
5. La Fille du Feu. From a sketch by Von Schwind.
6. Laus Dei. Angel after Hans Hemmeling.
7. Eve and Cain. After Steinle.
8. Study. After an old print.
9. The Parcæ. From a sketch by Carstens.
10. Antique Owlet. In Goethe's collection at Weimar.
*** The woodcuts are inserted to divide the
paragraphs and subjects, and are ornamental rather than
illustrative. Where the same vignette heads several paragraphs
consecutively, it is to signify that the _ideas_ expressed
stand in relation to each other.