Æstheticism, modern, and sombre colours, 114. Æthuia, the bird, 192. Affectation, artistic, 201. Age, feeling of increasing, 104. " the present, its dulness and excitement, 65. " " its vanity in art and science, 33. Ἀγνοία, 8. Αἰδὼς in art, 71. Aims and actions, 214. Alabama, the, 24. Alcyone, 190. Alsace, inscription on peasant's house in, 86. " peasants of, their delight and art, _ib._ Altorf, 199. Amboise, chapel of, 92. America and England, relations of, 79. Amusement, modern forms of, 71, 72. Anacreon and his dog, (Greek vase), 151. Anatomy, a degradation in painting man, 150. " a hindrance " " animals, _ib._ " comparative mental, 151. " destroys art, _pref._ vii. " its effect on the artist's mind and power, 158. " its place in relation to art, 149, _seq._ " most fatal to the greatest minds, 159. " Sir J. Reynolds, and, 154. " statement as to, in _Stones of Venice_, withdrawn, 159. Anaxagoras, 23. Angelico's jewel painting, 218. Angels, modern feeling about, 62. " their interest in human work, 53. ---- (the coins), 117. Ancestral honour, power of, 171. Animalism, humanity, divinity, 30. Animal history, modern books of, fail and why, 158. See s. _Nat. Hist._ Animals, artist's right view of their nature, 150. " each knows its own good, 23. " desire to kill, in inverse ratio to power to see and love, 175. " man's relation to, 30. " use of, as types in art, 151. " wearing of their skins, begins heraldry, 223. Ἀνοία, 8. Apathy, modern, 72, 73. Ἀφροσύνη, in men, nations, and art, 69-71, 74. Apollo, 105. " temple of, 119. " the Python and, 117. Apollodorus, quoted on the Halcyon, 190. Apsis and Aspis, 230. Arabs, 203. Architects, Institute of British, 6, 93. Architecture, decline of English, 239. " evidence of mental development in, 236. " short reign of perfect, 82. " woodcarving and, 86. See s. _Abbeville_, _Academy_, _Alsace_, _Amboise_, _Apsis_, _Bergamo_, _Châlet_, _Cottages_, _Hotels_, _Rouen_, _York_. Aristotle, "common sense" in, 25. " division of faculties, 8. " σοφίa and prudence in, 26. _Quoted_:-- Ethics vi. 7. 12. on wisdom and prudence, 19, 23. Hist. Av. i. 9. 2. on κανθόs 235. " v. 8. 9. on the Halcyon, 192. Armorial bearings, meaning of, 228.