Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
9. The restitution to Giovanni and Gentile Bellini of their portraits in
the Louvre and the finding of five other portraits of these two painters
of whom Crowe and Cavalcaselle and Layard maintain that we have no
portrait. [Letters to the _Athenæum_, &c.]
10. The restoration to Holbein of the drawing in the Basel Museum called
_La Danse_. [_Universal Review_, Nov., 1889.]
11. The calling attention to Gaudenzio Ferrari and putting him before
the public with something like the emphasis that he deserves. [_Ex
Voto_.]
12. The discovery of a life-sized statue of Leonardo da Vinci by
Gaudenzio Ferrari. [_Ex Voto_.]
13. The unearthing of the Flemish sculptor Jean de Wespin (called
Tabachetti in Italy) and of Giovanni Antonio Paracca. [_Ex Voto_.]
14. The finding out that the _Odyssey_ was written at Trapani, the
clearing up of the whole topography of the poem, and the demonstration,
as it seems to me, that the poem was written by a woman and not by a man.
Indeed, I may almost claim to have discovered the _Odyssey_, so altered
does it become when my views of it are adopted. And robbing Homer of the
_Odyssey_ has rendered the _Iliad_ far more intelligible; besides, I have
set the example of how he should be approached. [_The Authoress of the
Odyssey_.]
15. The attempt to do justice to my grandfather by writing _The Life and
Letters of Dr. Butler_ for which, however, I had special facilities.
16. In _Narcissus_ and _Ulysses_ I made an attempt, the failure of which
has yet to be shown, to return to the principles of Handel and take them
up where he left off.
17. The elucidation of Shakespeare’s _Sonnets_. [_Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Reconsidered_.]
I say nothing here about my novel [_The Way of All Flesh_] because it
cannot be published till after my death; nor about my translations of the
_Iliad_ and the _Odyssey_. Nevertheless these three books also were a
kind of picking up of sovereigns, for the novel contains records of
things I saw happening rather than imaginary incidents, and the
principles on which the translations are made were obvious to any one
willing to take and use them.
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