otnotes:

{0} The edition of "Literary and General Essays" that this
transcription was taken from also contained "Phaethon; or, Loose
Thoughts for Loose Thinkers" as the final part. This has been
released separately by Project Gutenberg and is not, therefore,
duplicated here.--DP.

{1} This Lecture was given at Harrow in 1873, and in America in
1874.

{35} Fraser's Magazine, November, 1853.

{61} "Poems," by Alexander Smith. London: Bogue. 1853. Fraser's
Magazine, October, 1853.

{103} Fraser's Magazine, September, 1850.--"In Memoriam." Moxon,
Dover Street. 1850.--"The Princess, a Medley:" by Alfred Tennyson.
Third Edition. 1850.--"Poems:" by Alfred Tennyson. 1852.

{127} North British Review, No. XXXI.--1.--"Elliott's Poems."
London, 1833.--2. "Poems of Robert Nicoll." Third Edition.
Edinburgh, 1843.--3. "Life and Poems of John Bethune." London,
1841.--4. "Memoirs of Alexander Bethune." By W. M'Combie.
Aberdeen, 1845.--5. "Rhymes and Recollections of a Handloom Weaver."
By William Thorn, of Inverury. Second Edition, London, 1845.--6.
"The Purgatory of Suicides." By Thomas Cooper. London, 1845.--7.
"The Book of Scottish Song." By Alexander Whitelaw. Edinburgh,
1848.

{187} Fraser's Magazine, March, 1849.--"Sacred and Legendary Art."
By Mrs. Jameson. 2 vols. London. 1848, Longman and Co.

{199} Since this was written, Mrs. Jameson's volume on the Legends
of the Madonna has succeeded excellently in giving us, if not a
complete, yet still a readable and modest picture of medieval
Mariolatry.

{210} We are sorry to see, however, that Mrs. Jameson has been so
far untrue to her own faculty as to join in the common mistake of
naming Raphael's well-known cartoon at Hampton Court, "Elymas the
Sorcerer struck Blind." On the supposition that this is its subject,
its method of arrangement is quite unworthy of the rest, as the
action would be split into the opposite corners of the picture, and
the post of honour in the centre occupied by a figure of secondary
importance; besides, the picture would lose its significance as one
of this great series on "Religious Conviction and Conversion." But,
strange to say, Raphael has all the while especially guarded against
this very error, by labelling the picture with a description of its
subject. Directly under the central figure is written, "Sergius
Paulus, Proconsul, embraces the Christian faith at the preaching of
Paul." Taking which simple