CONTENTS.
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I. THE BOOK AND ITS TITLE 1
II. THE CHILD IN THE VATICAN 17
III. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE 49
IV. FAUSTUS AND HELENA 70
V. CHAPELMASTER KREISLER 106
VI. CHERUBINO 129
VII. IN UMBRIA 156
VIII. RUSKINISM 197
IX. A DIALOGUE ON POETIC MORALITY 230
X. POSTSCRIPT OR APOLOGY 275
I have to thank the Editors of the _Cornhill_ and of _Fraser's
Magazines_, and of the _Contemporary Review_, for kind permission to
republish such of these studies as have previously appeared in print.