“The darkness was drawing closer about them. They did not light the light. After Morris touched her brow fleetingly with his lips, his face again wore its noble ecstatic expression, his eyes too were strangely revealing of some richer happiness that seemed foreign, far.... With the eyes of the spirit he had confronted the Beauty which is Absolute. He had progressed from the love of one woman toward love of all human things, and from old art which was limited, to a comprehension of the essence of all art, the Divine.” This book is nobly felt, nobly executed. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Quotation marks have been added to the following paragraphs to be consistent with similar occurrences within the text: Pg 7: “There is ... national soul.” Pg 8: “Lima! Your ... of Spain.” Pg 27: “Il y a dans ... Dame Reality.)” Pg 31: “Il me fallut ... and Vitellius.” Pg 41: “Figure aux ... last God.” Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Pg 3: ‘Eightheenth Century’ replaced by ‘Eighteenth Century’. Pg 5: ‘a Portugese critic’ replaced by ‘a Portuguese critic’. Pg 7: ‘some the same’ replaced by ‘some of the same’. Pg 11: ‘of great variety’ replaced by ‘of a great variety’. Pg 17: ‘the Pyranees and’ replaced by ‘the Pyrenees and’. Pg 17: ‘Pyranean village’ replaced by ‘Pyrenean village’. Pg 25: ‘a sered and wasteful winderness’ replaced by ‘a seered and wasteful wilderness’. Pg 26: ‘irridescent, like the’ replaced by ‘iridescent, like the’. Pg 29: ‘Lamertine wrote’ replaced by ‘Lamartine wrote’. Pg 30: ‘unbelieveable charm’ replaced by ‘unbelievable charm’. Pg 31: ‘of Eighteenth’ replaced by ‘of the Eighteenth’. Pg 32: ‘Gallilean Prophet’ replaced by ‘Galilean Prophet’. Pg 35: ‘English clerygman’ replaced by ‘English clergyman’. Pg 41: ‘shores of Gallilee’ replaced by ‘shores of Galilee’. Pg 46: ‘Salâmmbo’ replaced by ‘Salammbô’. Pg 64: ‘by many seiges’ replaced by ‘by many sieges’. Pg 69: ‘the hysop of the’ replaced by ‘the hyssop of the’. Pg 74: ‘Heine’ day was’ replaced by ‘Heine’s day was’. Pg 75: ‘in the quartrain’ replaced by ‘in the quatrain’. Pg 79: ‘exclamed with joy’ replaced by ‘exclaimed with joy’. Pg 79: ‘thanks to me like’ replaced by ‘thanks to men like’. Pg 81: ‘quartrains of Persia’ replaced by ‘quatrains of Persia’. Pg 82: ‘After period of’ replaced by ‘After the period of’. Pg 82: ‘born on the crest’ replaced by ‘borne on the crest’. Pg 82: ‘in his Rubiayat’ replaced by ‘in his Rubaiyat’. Pg 84: ‘into a quartrain’ replaced by ‘into a quatrain’. Pg 87: ‘loved banks of’ replaced by ‘loved the banks of’. Pg 95: ‘with new irridescence’ replaced by ‘with new iridescence’. Pg 96: ‘at stated intervales’ replaced by ‘at stated intervals’.