Miscellaneous Studies
Book Excerpt
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 unifying principle. Some of the papers would naturally find their place alongside of those collected in Imaginary Portraits, or in Appreciations, or in the Studies in the Renaissance. And there is no doubt, in the case of several of them, that Mr. Pater, if he had lived, would have subjected them to careful revision before allowing them to reappear in a permanent form. The task, which he left unexecuted, cannot now be taken up by any other hand. But it is hoped that students of his writings will be glad to possess, in a collected shape, what has hitherto only been accessible in the scattered vo