[169] My brother did not ever paint these subjects, as forming “side pieces” in a larger composition. He did however, at a later date, paint an important water-colour named _The House of John_ (the second proposed subject); and I believe that, soon after our present date in 1849, he executed the first subject also, though I do not recollect it. [170] Something has been torn away here. The passage relates to Charles Wells, and his drama of _Joseph and his Brethren_. The narrator was William Smith Williams, who preceded myself up to November 1850 as art critic to _The Spectator_, and who, as literary adviser of Messrs. Smith and Elder, secured the publication of _Jane Eyre_. [171] The book entitled _Stories after Nature_. The proposal of republication with etchings &c. did not take effect. [172] Afterwards named _Democracy Downtrodden_. [173] I was now at Cowes, along with James Collinson; soon afterwards at Ventnor by myself. The blank-verse poem which I composed is the one which, in 1868, got published under the title of _Mrs. Holmes Grey_. [174] Not executed. [175] A sculptor then of some mark and promise. [176] The poet, Coventry Patmore. This is the first mention of him (as a matter of personal acquaintance) in my journal. I am not now quite sure how Woolner came to know of him, but think it may have been through Mr. Vom Bach, a Russian gentleman who had some employment in the British Museum, to which Mr. Patmore also belonged. [177] This was not done. [178] The composition of _Kate the Queen_ included various figures of women occupied in tapestry or embroidery work. [179] I was then writing, or intending to write, for _The Germ_, a review of Clough’s poem named _The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich_. [180] In Oxford. [181] He did so--the picture currently termed _The Carpenter’s Shop_. [182] A Phrenologist, then well known. [183] There is a gap before these words, I think it was Hunt and my brother who, with Stephens, looked over the house--being the same house which, after an interval of thirteen years, my brother actually tenanted. [184] One sonnet thus entitled has been already named. It had apparently been intended to use the same title as applicable to a series. [185] Another poem begun by Woolner. It remained, I think, a mere fragment. [186] John Harris was a painter of some promise, who about this time took a great interest in Egyptian antiquities. His face is very exactly reproduced in Millais’s picture of _Lorenzo and Isabella_--the brother who is kicking out at a dog. He died towards 1853. [187] The blank-verse poem previously mentioned. In 1849 it went under the name of _A Plain Story of Life_. [188] Major Calder Campbell, a retired officer of the Indian army and light _littérateur_, was a very cordial friend of my brother and myself in youth. [189] In the picture of _Ferdinand lured by Ariel_. [190] Hereabouts comes a tatter of the MS.