48
MR. PATER'S 'IMAGINARY PORTRAITS' 51
A GERMAN PRINCESS 55
'A VILLAGE TRAGEDY' 63
MR. MORRIS'S COMPLETION OF THE 'ODYSSEY' 65
MRS. SOMERVILLE 70
ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA 76
EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND 81
MADAME RISTORI 85
ENGLISH POETESSES 91
VENUS OR VICTORY 101
M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND 105
A FASCINATING BOOK 108
HENLEY'S POEMS 123
SOME LITERARY LADIES 129
POETRY AND PRISON 143
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN 146
IRISH FAIRY TALES 152
MR. W. B. YEATS 158
MR. YEATS'S 'WANDERINGS OF OISIN' 160
MR. WILLIAM MORRIS'S LAST BOOK 162
SOME LITERARY NOTES 167
MR. SWINBURNE'S 'POEMS AND BALLADS' (Third Series) 173
A CHINESE SAGE 177
MR. PATER'S 'APPRECIATIONS' 187
SENTENTIAE 194

THE TOMB OF KEATS
(_Irish Monthly_, July 1877.)

As one enters Rome from the Via Ostiensis by the Porta San Paolo, the
first object that meets the eye is a marble pyramid which stands close at
hand on the left.

There are many Egyptian obelisks in Rome--tall, snakelike spires of red
sandstone, mottled with strange writings, which remind us of the pillars
of flame which led the children of Israel through the desert away from
the land of the Pharaohs; but more wonderful than these to look upon is
this gaunt, wedge-shaped pyramid standing here in this Italian city,
unshattered amid the ruins and wrecks of time, looking older than the
Eternal City itself, like terrible impassiveness turned to stone. And so
in the Middle Ages men supposed this to be the sepulchre of Remus,