A commonplace book of thoughts, memories, and fancies, original and selected ..

CONTENTS PART I. ETHICS AND CHARACTER. Ethical Fragments. Vanity, 18 Truths and Truisms, 14 Beauty and Use, 14 What is Soul, 18 The Philosophy of Happiness, 19 Cheerfulness a Virtue, 21 Intellect and Sympathy, 21 Old Letters, 22 The Point of Honour, 28 Looking up, 28 Authors, 24 Thought and Theory, 24 Impulse and Consideration, 25 Principle and Expediency, 26 Personality of the Eyil Principle, 26 The Catholic Spirit, 28 Death-beds, 28 Thoughts on a Sermon, 29 Love and Fear of God, 30 Social Opinion, 31 Balzac, 31 Political, 31 Celibacy, 32 Landor's Wise Sayings, 33 Justice and Generosity, 35 Roman Catholic Converts, 35 Stealing and Borrowing, 35 Good and Bad, 36 Italian Proverb. Greek Saying, 36 Silent Grief, 37 Past and Future, 37 Suicide. Countenance, 38 Progress and Progression, Happiness in Suffering, 40 Life in the Future, 41 Strength. Youth, 42 Moral Suffering, 43 The Secret of Peace, 44 Motives and Impulses, 45 Principle and Passion, Dominant Ideas, 46 Absence and Death, 47 Sydney Smith. Theodore Hook, 48 Werther and Childe Harold, 51 Money Obligations, 53 Charity, 54 Truth, 55 Women. Men, 55 Compensation for Sorrow, 56 Religion. Avarice, 57 Genius, 57 Mind, 58 Hieroglyphical Colours, 58 Character, 59 Value of Words, 60 Nature and Art, 61 Spirit and Form, 64 Penal Retribution, 64 The Church, 66 Woman's Patriotism, 66 Doubt, 66 Curiosity, 67 Tieck. Coleridge, 67 Application of a Bon Mot of Talleyrand, 68 Adverse Individualities, 69 Conflict in Love, 70 French Expressions, 71 Practical and Contemplative Life, 72 Joanna Baillie. Macaulay's Ballads, 78 Cunning, 74 Browning's Paracelsus, 74 Men, Women, and Children, 77 Letters, 91 Madame de Stael, 91 Deft, 98 Thought too free, 94 Good Qualities, not Virtues, 96 Sense and Fantasy, 96 Use the Present, 96 Facts, 97 Wise Sayings, 98 Pestilence of Falsehood, 99 Signs instead of Words, 100 Relations with the World, 101 Milton's Adam and Eve, 102 Thoughts, sundry, 103 A Revelation of Childhood, 104 The Indian Hunter and the Fire ; an Allegory, 132 Poetical Fragments, 135 THEOLOGICAL The Hermit and the Minstrel, 139 Pandemonium, 142 Southey on the Religious Orders, 145 Forms in Religion — Image Worship, 146 Religious Differences, 148 Expansive Christianity, 151 NOTES FROM VARIOUS SERMONS : — A Roman Catholic Sermon, 154 Another, 167 Church of England Sermon, 159 Another, 162 Dissenting Sermon, 167 Father Taylor of Boston, 168 PART II. LITERATURE AND ART. Notes from Books : — Dr. Arnold, 176 Niebuhr, 197 Lord Bacon, 205 Chateaubriand, 215 Bishop Cumberland, 221 Comte's Philosophy, 224 Goethe, 234 Hazlitt's "Liber Amoris," 236 Francis Horner, "The Nightingale," 239 Thackeray's "English Humourists," 242 Notes on Art : — Analogies, 248 Definition of Art, 260 No Patriotic Art, 251 Verse and Colour, 251 Dutch Pictures, 252 Morals in Art, 253 Physiognomy of Hands, 258 Mozart and Chopin, 259 Music, 262 Rachel, the Actress, 263 English and German Actresses, 266 Character of Imogen, 271 Shakspeare Club, 272 "Maria Maddalena," 278 The Artistic Nature, 274 Woman's Criticism, 276 Artistic Influences, 277 The Greek Aphrodite, 278 Love, in the Greek Tragedy, 278 Wilkie's Life and Letters, 279 Wilhelm Schadow, 283 Artist Life, 286 Materialism in Art, 288 A Fragment on Sculpture, and on certain Characters in History and Poetry, considered as Subjects for Modern Art, 290 Helen of Troy, 295 Penelope—Laodamia, 299 Hippolytus, 302 Iphigenia, 305 Eve, 309 Adam, 311 Angels, 312 Miriam — Ruth, 316 Christ — Solomon — David, 315 Hagar — Rebecca — Rachel — Queen of Sheba, 316 Lady Godiva, 317 Joan of Arc, 319 Characters from Shakspeare, 328 Characters from Spenser, 324 From Milton. The Lady — Comus — Satan, 326 From the Italian and Modern Poets, 328 Digitized by Google.
pt. I. Ethics and character.--pt. II. Literature and art