Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
Many of the papers which give to the present volume its title first appeared in the columns of the _Daily Telegraph_, and are here reprinted by the courteous permission of the proprietors of that journal.
Many of the papers which give to the present volume its title first appeared in the columns of the _Daily Telegraph_, and are here reprinted by the courteous permission of the p...
2. Part 2We first met at the Old Arts Club, in Hanover Square. He was not a very constant visitor there, for his inclination, as I have already hinted, did not often carry him into a mix...
3. Part 3This was said during the time when Hallé and I were arranging the collected exhibition of his works at the Grosvenor Gallery, and when he had had a full opportunity of passing i...
4. Part 4Rossetti, although he never exposed his own pictures to public criticism, was, like every artist who has ever lived, eager for the praise of those whose praise he valued; and hi...
5. Part 5These qualities of Burne-Jones’s art are not peculiar to him. They find their warrant, as we have seen, in all the work of that earlier school to which he loved to own his oblig...
6. Part 6No one, surely, perceived more clearly that there is in every art an essential quality born of its material and resting with instinctive security upon its special resources and...
7. Part 7The historic side of _genre_ painting is further illustrated in the present collection in the person of Maclise, who, like his great forerunner, William Hogarth, was attracted a...
8. Part 8William Dyce, by his declared devotion to the painters of the Quattrocento, had already in part anticipated the practice of the Pre-Raphaelites; and Ford Madox Brown, here repre...
9. Part 9The young people of a country-house always found a welcome from Meredith, and towards women at all times his respect was of a kind that needed no spur of social convention. It s...
10. Part 10To this popular view of the character Mrs. Kemble, in her notes on Shakespeare, gives vivacious expression. Here we are told that Lady Macbeth was not only devoid of “all the pe...
11. Part 11On the threshold of this terrible adventure in what mood do we find them? The project, as we have seen, is no stranger to the breast of either, and yet with what strangely diffe...
12. Part 12I met him first at the Old Albion Tavern in Drury Lane--a favourite haunt of actors that has long passed away--and I remember then that the man himself impressed me more deeply...
13. Part 13Indeed among the men who practised this branch of art, I have known only two who in personal intercourse gave any complete indication of the humorous powers they possessed. Perh...
14. Part 14I have mentioned the name of Coquelin, whose talent in the region of comedy was consummate, and even in this very performance of _L’Étrangère_ his impersonation of the Duc de Se...
15. Part 15I have referred to the duties of the Junior of the circuit as being somewhat anomalous, because although, as his title would imply, he is always chosen from the newest of its re...
16. Part 16It chanced that my friend had in his case a fine cast of drawn gut with a small floating fly, which a month or two before he had used on a southern stream; I myself had chosen a...