LONDON:
W. SATCHELL & CO.,
12 TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C.
TO
A. MARY F. ROBINSON.
| CONTENTS | |
|---|---|
| I. | THE BOOK AND ITS TITLE. |
| II. | THE CHILD IN THE VATICAN. |
| III. | ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE. |
| IV. | FAUSTUS AND HELENA. |
| V. | CHAPELMASTER KREISLER. |
| VI. | CHERUBINO. |
| VII. | IN UMBRIA. |
| VIII. | RUSKINISM. |
| IX. | A DIALOGUE ON POETIC MORALITY. |
| X. | POSTSCRIPT OR APOLOGY. |
I have to thank the Editors of the Cornhill and of Fraser'sMagazines, and of the Contemporary Review, for kind permissionto republish such of these studies as have previouslyappeared in print.
A little while ago I told you that I wished this collectionof studies to be more especially yours: so now Isend it you, a bundle of proofs and of MS., to knowwhether you will have it. I wish I could give you whatI have written in the same complete way that a painterwould give you one of his sketches; that a singer, singingfor you alone, might give you his voice and his art;for a dedication is but a drop of ink on a large whitesheet, and conveys but a sorry notion of property.Now, this book is intended to be really yours; yours inthe sense that, were it impossible for more than onecopy of it to exist, that one copy I should certainly giveto you. Because these studies represent the ideas Iha