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The Tomb of Keats

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Keats’s Sonnet on Blue

4

Dinners and Dishes

8

Shakespeare on Scenery

10

‘Henry the Fourth’ at Oxford

15

A Handbook to Marriage

18

To Read or Not to Read

21

The Letters of a Great Woman

22

BÉranger in England

27

The Poetry of the People

29

‘The Cenci’

32

Balzac in English

34

Ben Jonson

37

Mr. Symonds’ History of the Renaissance

39

Mr. Morris’s ‘Odyssey’

44

Russian Novelists

48

Mr. Pater’s ‘Imaginary Portraits’

51

A German Princess

55

‘A Village Tragedy’

63

Mr. Morris’s Completion of the ‘Odyssey’

65

Mrs. Somerville

70

Aristotle at Afternoon Tea

76

Early Christian Art in Ireland

81

Madame Ristori

85

English Poetesses

91

Venus or Victory

101

M. Caro on George Sand

105

A Fascinating Book

108

Henley’s Poems

123

Some Literary Ladies

129

Poetry and Prison

143

The Gospel According to Walt Whitman

146

Irish Fairy Tales

152

Mr. W. B. Yeats

158

Mr. Yeats’s ‘Wanderings of Oisin’

160

Mr. William Morris’s Last Book

162

Some Literary Notes

167

Mr. Swinburne’s ‘Poems and Ballads’ (Third Series)

173

A Chinese Sage

177

Mr. Pater’s ‘Appreciations’

187

Sententiae

194