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On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) / A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature

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A wide-ranging collection of essays and evidentiary testimonies on visual art, museum practice, art education, and related subjects, alongside short pieces on natural science, literature, economics, and theology. The author argues for integrated display and careful arrangement of paintings and sculpture, for protective and pedagogical gallery practices, and for art instruction suited to working people. Interspersed notes present natural observations and scientific curiosities, literary reflections including fairy tales and fiction, and practical essays on home economy, usury, and religious questions. The volume combines critical advocacy, formal analysis, and practical comment aimed at shaping public taste, institutional policy, and everyday understanding of art and nature.

FOOTNOTES:

[178] Left, at the Editor's request, with only some absolutely needful clearing of unintelligible sentences, as it was written for free delivery. It was the last of a course of twelve given this autumn;—refers partly to things already said, partly to drawings on the walls; and needs the reader's pardon throughout, for faults and abruptness incurable but by re-writing the whole as an essay instead of a lecture.—(Nineteenth Century, January, 1878.)

[179] Of course, this statement is merely a generalization of many made in the preceding lectures, the tenor of which any readers acquainted with my recent writings may easily conceive.

[180] The references were to the series of drawings lately made, in Venice, for the Oxford and Sheffield schools, from the works of Carpaccio, by Mr. Fairfax Murray.