[83]. In Harper’s Magazine, vol. 78, p. 870.
[84]. Reminiscences quoted by Garland in McClure’s Magazine, April, 1897.
[85]. From a letter published in the newspapers at the time of the dedication of the Grant Monument, in April, 1897.
[86]. Mr. Howells remarks that “in Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and that in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.”—“Their Silver Wedding Journey,” Harper’s Magazine, September, 1899.
[87]. Related by W. H. Gibson, in Harper’s Magazine for May, 1897.
[88]. The fact that the Roman system meant organized ennui in thought, the impossibility of entertaining large and hopeful views of life, is strikingly brought out by the aid of contemporary documents in Dill’s Roman Society. Prisoners of a shrinking system, the later Romans had no outlook except toward the past. Anything onward and open in thought was inconceivable by them.
[89]. See Primitive Culture, by E. B. Tylor, chap. xiv.
[90]. J. A. Symonds, History of the Renaissance in Italy, The Fine Arts, p. 329. Hamerton has some interesting observations on mystery in art in his life of Turner, p. 352; also Ruskin in Modern Painters, part v., chaps. 4 and 5.
[91]. Tennyson, The Holy Grail.
[92]. See p. 248.