MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS
WALTER HORATIO PATER
London: 1910. (The Library Edition.)
NOTES BY THE E-TEXT EDITOR:
Notes: The 1910 Library Edition employs footnotes, a style inconvenientin an electronic edition. I have therefore placed an asteriskimmediately after each of Pater's footnotes and a + sign after my ownnotes, and have listed each chapter's notes at that chapter's end.
Pagination and Paragraphing: To avoid an unwieldy electronic copy, Ihave transferred original pagination to brackets. A bracketed numeralsuch as [22] indicates that the material immediately following thenumber marks the beginning of the relevant page. I have preservedparagraph structure except for first-line indentation.
Hyphenation: I have not preserved original hyphenation since an e-textdoes not require line-end or page-end hyphenation.
Greek typeface: For this full-text edition, I have transliteratedPater's Greek quotations. If there is a need for the original Greek,it can be viewed at my site, http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts, aVictorianist archive that contains the complete works of Walter Paterand many other nineteenth-century texts, mostly in first editions.
MISCELLANEOUS STUDIES: A SERIES OF ESSAYS
WALTER HORATIO PATER
CONTENTS
C. Shadwell's Preface—Publication Chronology: 1-7
Prosper Mérimée: 11-37
Raphael: 38-61
Pascal: 62-89
Art Notes in North Italy: 90-108
Notre Dame D'Amiens: 109-125
Vézelay: 126-141
Apollo in Picardy: 142-171
The Child in the House: 172-196
Emerald Uthwart: 197-246
Diaphaneité: 247-254
CHARLES L. SHADWELL'S PREFACE
[1] The volume of Greek Studies, issued early in the present year,dealt with Mr. Pater's contributions to the study of Greek art,mythology, and poetry. The present volume has no such unifyingprinciple. Some of the papers would naturally find their placealongside of those collected in Imaginary Portraits, or inAppreciations, or in the Studies in the Renaissance. And there is nodoubt, in the case of several of them, that Mr. Pater, if he had lived,would have subjected them to careful revision before allowing them toreappear in a permanent form. The task, which he left unexecuted,cannot now be taken up by any other hand. But it is hoped thatstudents of his writings will be glad to possess, in a collected shape,what has hitherto only been accessible in the scattered volumes ofmagazines. It is with some hesitation that the paper on Diaphaneitè,the last in this volume, has been added, as the only specimen known to[2] be preserved of those early essays of Mr. Pater's, by which hisliterary gifts were first ma