[1. The Condition of Artistic Presentation is the Correspondence of Matter and Plastic Form 133 2. Part I.--The Ideal 141 3. Part II.--The Types of Art 144 ([Greek: a]) Symbolic Art 145 ([Greek: b]) Classical Art 148 ([Greek: g]) Romantic Art 151 4. Part III.--The Several Arts 157 ([Greek: a]) Architecture 160 ([Greek: b]) Sculpture 162 ([Greek: g]) Romantic Art, comprising 164 (i.) Painting 167 (ii.) Music 169 (iii.) Poetry 171 5. Conclusion] 173 PREFATORY ESSAY BY THE TRANSLATOR. ON THE TRUE CONCEPTION OF ANOTHER WORLD. "With such barren forms of thought, that are always in a world beyond, Philosophy has nothing to do. Its object always something concrete, and in the highest sense present."--HEGEL'S _Logic_, Wallace's translation, p. 150. It will surprise many readers to be told that the words which I have quoted above embody the very essence of Hegelian thought. The Infinite, the supra-sensuous, the divine, are so connected in our minds with futile rackings of the imagination about remote matters which only distract us from our duties, that a philosophy which designates its problems by such terms as these seems self-condemned as cloudy and inane. But, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding, Hegel is faithful to the present and the concrete. In the study of his philosophy we are always dealing with human experience. "My stress lay," says Mr. Browning,[5] "on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study." For "a soul" read "the mind," and you have the subject-matter to which Hegel's eighteen close-printed volumes are devoted. The present introductory remarks are meant to insist on this neglected point of view. I wish to point out, in two or three salient instances, the transformation undergone by speculative notions when sedulously applied to life, and restrained from generating an empty "beyond." By so doing I hope to pave the way for a due appreciation of Hegel's philosophy of fine art. That the world of mind, or the world above sense, exists as an actual and organized whole, is a truth most easily realized in the study of the beautiful. And to grasp this principle as Hegel applies it is nothing less than to acquire a new contact with spiritual life. The spiritual world, which is present, actual, and concrete, contains much besides beauty. But to apprehend one element of such a whole constitutes and presupposes a long step