[65] I need not say that this inquiry can only be pursued by the help of those who will take it up good-humoredly and graciously: such help I will receive in the spirit in which it is given; entering into no controversy, but questioning further where there is doubt: gathering all I can into focus, and passing silently by what seems at last irreconcilable. [66] This essay, Chapter II. in the _Art Journal_, is here omitted as having been already reprinted with only a few verbal alterations in _The Queen of the Air_, Sec.Sec. 135 to 142 inclusive, which see. The _Art Journal_, however, contained a final paragraph, introductory of Chapter III., which is omitted in _The Queen of the Air_, and was as follows:--"To the discernment of this law" (_i.e._, that to which the arts are subject, see _Queen of the Air_, Sec. 142) "we will now address ourselves slowly, beginning with the consideration of little things, and of easily definable virtues. And since Patience is the pioneer of all the others, I shall endeavor in the next paper to show how that modest virtue has been either held of no account, or else set to vilest work in our modern Art-schools; and what harm has resulted from such disdain, or such employment of her."--ED. +----------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's note: | | | |Chapter II is missing from the original.| +----------------------------------------+ CHAPTER III.[67] "Dame Pacience sitting there I fonde, With face pale, upon an hill of sonde."