And this is the idea which Severn's picture of him
gives. Even Haydon's rough pen-and-ink sketch of him is better than this
'marble libel,' which I hope will soon be taken down. I think the best
representation of the poet would be a coloured bust, like that of the
young Rajah of Koolapoor at Florence, which is a lovely and lifelike work
of art.

{19} It is perhaps not generally known that there is another and older
peacock ceiling in the world besides the one Mr. Whistler has done at
Kensington. I was surprised lately at Ravenna to come across a mosaic
ceiling done in the keynote of a peacock's tail--blue, green, purple, and
gold--and with four peacocks in the four spandrils. Mr. Whistler was
unaware of the existence of this ceiling at the time he did his own.

{43} An Unequal Match, by Tom Taylor, at Wallack's Theatre, New York,
November 6, 1882.

{74} 'Make' is of course a mere printer's error for 'mock,' and was
subsequently corrected by Lord Houghton. The sonnet as given in The
Garden of Florence reads 'orbs' for 'those.'

{158} September 1890. See Intentions, page 214.

{163} November 30, 1891.

{164} February 12, 1892.

{170} February 23, 1893.

{172} The verses called 'The Shamrock' were printed in the Sunday Sun,
August 5, 1894, and the charge of plagiarism was made in the issue dated
September 16, 1894.

{188} Cousin errs a good deal in this respect. To say, as he did, 'Give
me the latitude and the longitude of a country, its rivers and its
mountains, and I will deduce the race,' is surely a glaring exaggeration.

{190} The monarchical, aristocratical, and democratic elements of the
Roman constitution are referred to.

{193a} Polybius, vi. 9. [Greek].

{193b} [Greek].

{193c} The various stages are [Greek].

{197a} Polybius, xii. 24.

{197b} Polybius, i. 4, viii. 4, specially; and really passim.

{198a} He makes one exception.

{198b} Polybius, viii. 4.

{199} Polybius, xvi. 12.

{200a} Polybius, viii. 4: [Greek].

{200b} Polybius resembled Gibbon in many respects. Like him he held
that all religions were to the philosopher equally false, to the vulgar
equally true, to the statesman equally useful.

{203} Cf. Polybius, xii. 25, [Greek].

{205} Polybius, xxii. 22.

{207} I mean particularly as regards his sweeping denunciation of the
complete moral decadence of Greek society during the Peloponnesian War
which, from what remains to us of Athenian lit