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]

LIST OF ETCHINGS.

1.Fruits and Flowers. After an old drawing.
2.Out of my garden.
3.Virgin Martyrs. Thought. Memory. Fancy. After Benedetto
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.

PART I.

Ethics and Character.