Chapter III: Part II: 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.