CONTENTS.

PART I.

Ethics and Character.

Ethical Fragments.Page
Vanity[1]
Truths and Truisms[3]
Beauty and Use[5]
What is Soul?[7]
The Philosophy of Happiness[9]
Cheerfulness a Virtue[10]
Intellect and Sympathy[11]
Old Letters[12]
The Point of Honour[13]
Looking up[14]
Authors[14]
Thought and Theory[15]
Impulse and Consideration[16]
Principle and Expediency[16]
Personality of the Evil Principle[17]
The Catholic Spirit[18]
Death-beds[19]
Thoughts on a Sermon[20]
Love and Fear of God[22]
Social Opinion[23]
Balzac[23]
Political[24]
Celibacy[25]
Landor’s Wise Sayings[26]
Justice and Generosity[27]
Roman Catholic Converts[28]
Stealing and Borrowing[28]
Good and Bad[29]
Italian Proverb. Greek Saying[30]
Silent Grief[31]
Past and Futur[32]
Suicide. Countenance[33]
Progress and Progression[34]
Happiness in Suffering[35]
Life in the Future[36]
Strength. Youth[38]
Moral Suffering[40]
The Secret of Peace[41]
Motives and Impulses[42]
Principle and Passion[43]
Dominant Ideas[44]
Absence and Death[45]
Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook[46]
Werther and Childe Harold[50]
Money Obligations[52]
Charity. Truth[53]
Women. Men[55]
Compensation for Sorrow[57]
Religion. Avarice[57]
Genius. Mind[59]
Hieroglyphical Colours[60]
Character[61]
Value of Words[62]
Nature and Art[64]
Spirit and Form[67]
Penal Retribution. The Church[68]
Woman’s Patriotism[70]
Doubt. Curiosity[71]
Tieck. Coleridge[71]
Application of a Bon Mot of Talleyrand[73]
Adverse Individualities[75]
Conflict in Love[76]
French Expressions[77]
Practical and Contemplative Life[78]
Joanna Baillie. Macaulay’s Ballads[80]
Cunning[80]
Browning’s Paracelsus[81]
Men, Women, and Children[84]
Letters[100]
Madame de Staël. Dejà[103]
Thought too free[105]
Good Qualities, not Virtues[106]
Sense and Phantasy[107]
Use the Present[108]
Facts[109]
Wise Sayings[111]
Pestilence of Falsehood[112]
Signs instead of Words. Relations with the World[113]
Milton’s Adam and Eve[115]
Thoughts, sundry[116]
A Revelation of Childhood[117]
The Indian Hunter and the Fire; an Allegory[147]
Poetical Fragments[152]

Theological.

The Hermit and the Minstrel[155]
Pandemonium[158]
Southey on the Religious Orders[162]
Forms in Religion—Image Worship[164]
Religious Differences[165]
Expansive Christianity[169]
Notes from various Sermons:—
A Roman Catholic Sermon[172]
Another[176]
Church of England Sermon[178]
Another[181]
Dissenting Sermon[187]
Father Taylor of Boston[188]

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 inHistory and Poetry, considered as Subjects for ModernArt[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]