LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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| JOHANN WOLFGANG von GOETHE. | [Frontispiece] |
| Photogravure after a photograph from a portrait by Stieler. | |
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| FRANCESCA DA RIMINI | [ 1] |
| Dante's tale of the unhappy lovers whom he saw in the realm of shades will live in poetry and art. This color-plate, from the painting by A. Cabanel, shows their tragic death at the hand of the enraged brother. | |
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS | [ 9] |
| From an engraving after the portrait by C. L. Elliott. | |
THE DIVER | [ 45] |
| "Hark! a shriek from the crowd rang aloud from the shore, And behold! he is whirled in the grasp of the main." | |
| From photogravure after a drawing by A. Michaelis. | |
ROBERT BROWNING | [103] |
| After a life-photograph by Elliott and Fry, London. | |
THE FATAL COAST-TIDE | [145] |
| "The old sea-wall (he cried) is down! The rising tide comes on apace." | |
| From photogravure by Braun, Clement & Co., after a painting by G. Haquette. | |
THE BATTLE OF THE NILE | [185] |
| "There came a burst of thunder-sound; The boy—Oh! where was he? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea." | |
| From engraving after the painting by George Arnald, A. R. A. | |
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD | [193] |
| After a life-photograph by Sarony, New York. | |
THE PRESS-GANG | [271] |
| "But as they fetched a walk one day, They met a press-gang crew; And Sally she did faint away, Whilst Ben he was brought to." | |
| From engraving after a painting by Alexander Johnston. | |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | [345] |
| After a photogravure from life-photograph by Notman, Boston. | |
BRET HARTE | [375] |
| From a photogravure after the original portrait by J. Pettie |
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI.
The tale of the fated lovers, Francesca and Paolo, whose fleeting spirits Dante saw in his visit to the realms of the dead, will always live in poetry and in art. His brief story of their approach in mutual sympathy, over the reading of a book, is given in our second volume: the scene of their tragic death at the hand of her enraged husband is the subject of this painting by Alexandre Cabanel, the French artist.
