Produced by Marius Masi, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: The following typographical errors have been corrected: Page 86: "We bring ourselves, by its help, to face petty details that are wearisome, and heavy tasks that are almost appalling." 'appalling' amended from 'appaling'. Page 153: "That which is truly, and deeply, and seriously an injury to our intellectual life, is the foolishness of the too common vanity." 'too' amended from 'two'. Page 161: "the child had the defects of children, but of children born in the different countries where he lived." 'lived' amended from 'live'. Page 294: "The girl was uneducated: it seems hopeless to try to educate the woman". 'educate' amended from 'educated'. Page 364: "I am sure that my modern artillery captain, notwithstanding his bad manners." 'notwithstanding' amended from 'notwithstand'. Page 377: "I know a distinguished Englishman who is quite remarkable for the talent with which he arranges his intellectual friendships, so as never to be dependent on any one." 'intellectual' amended from 'inintellectual'. Page 383: "The truth is, that to succeed well in fashionable society the higher intellectual attainments are not so useful as distinguished skill in those amusements which are the real business of the fashionable world." 'business of' amended from 'busiof'. Page 387: "To me it appears the perfect type of that preoccupation about appearances which blinds the genteel vulgar to the true nobility of life." 'preoccupation' amended from 'pre-occupation'. Page 417: "She moves; movement is the law of her life; yet she is as tranquil in her little cabin as any goodwife on shore." 'she' amended from 'see'. Page 489: "I certainly think that if a good curé has an exceptional genius for sanctity." 'sanctity' amended from 'sancitity'. Page 558 (index): "Dullness of general conversation." 'Dullness' amended from 'Dulness'. THE INTELLECTUAL LIFE, BY PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON, AUTHOR OF "A PAINTER'S CAMP," "THOUGHTS ABOUT ART," "THE UNKNOWN RIVER," ETC. NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS TO EUGÈNIE H.