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AUTOBIOGRAPHY.

My reasons for writing an Autobiography.--That a man knows the history of his own life better than a biographer can know it.--Frankness and reserve.--The contemplation of death.

My birthplace.--My father and mother.--Circumstances of their marriage.--Their short married life.--Birth of their child.--Death of my mother.--Her character and habits.--My father as a widower.--Dulness of his life.--Its degradation.

My childhood is passed at Barnley with my aunts.--My grandfather and grandmother.--Estrangement between Gilbert Hamerton and his brother of Hellifield Peel.--Death of Gilbert Hamerton.--His taste for the French language.--His travels in Portugal, and the conduct of a steward during his absence.--His three sons.--Aristocratic tendencies of his daughters.--Beginning of my education.--Visits to my father.

A tour in Wales in 1842.--Extracts from my Journal of this tour.--My inborn love for beautiful materials.--Stay at Rhyl.--Anglesea and Caernarvon.--Reasons for specially remembering this tour.

A painful chapter to write.--My father calls me home.--What kind of a house it was.--Paternal education and discipline.--My life at that time one of dulness varied by dread.

My extreme loneliness.--Thoughts of flight.--My father's last illness and death.--Circumstances of my last interview with him.--His funeral.

Dislike to Shaw in consequence of the dreadful life I lead there with my father.--My guardian.--Her plan for my education.--Doncaster School.--Mr. Cape and his usher.--The usher's intolerance of Dissenters.--My feeling for architecture and music.--The drawing-master.--My guardian insists on my learning French.--Our French master, Sig. Testa.--A painful incident.--I begin to learn the violin.--Dancing.--My aversion to cricket.--Early readings.--Love of Scott.--My first library.--Classical studies.

Early attempts in English verse.--Advantages of life at Doncaster.--A school incident.--Fagging.--Story of a dog.--Robbery.--My school-fellow Henry Alexander.--His remarkable influence.--Other school-fellows. --Story of a boat.--A swimming adventure.--Our walks and battles.

Early interest in theology.--Reports of sermons.--Quiet influence of Mr. Cape.--Failure of Mr. Cape's health.--His death.

My education becomes less satisfactory.--My guardian's state of health.--I pursue my studies at Burnley.--Dr. Butler.--He encourages me to write English.--Extract from a prize poem.--Public discussions in Burnley School.--A debate on Queen Elizabeth.

My elder uncle.--We go to live at Hollins.--Description of the place. --My strong attachment to it.--My first experiment in art-criticism. --The stream at Hollins.--My first catamaran.--Similarity of my life at Hollins to my life in France thirty-six years later.

Interest in the Middle Ages.--Indifference to the Greeks and Romans. --Love for Sir Walter Scott's writings.--Interest in heraldry and illuminations.--Passion for hawking.--Old books in the school library at Burnley.--Mr. Edward Alexander of Halifax.--Attempts in literary composition.--Contributions to the "Historic Times."--"Rome in 1849."--"Observations on Heraldry."

Political and religious opinions of my relations.--The Rev. James Bardsley.--Protestant controversy with Rome.--German neology.--The inspiration of the Scriptures.--Inquiry into foundation for the doctrine.--I cease to be a Protestant.--An alternative presents itself.--A provisional condition of prolonged inquiry.--Our medical adviser.--His remarkable character.--His opinions.

First visit to London in 1851.--My first impression of the place.-- Nostalgia of the country.--Westminster.--The Royal Academy.--Resolution never to go to London again.--Reason why this resolution was afterwards broken.

The lore of reading a hindrance to classical studies.--Dr. Butler becomes anxious about my success at Oxford.--An insuperable obstacle.--My indifference to degrees.--Irksome hypocrisy.--I am nearly sent to a tutor at Brighton.--I go to a tutor in Yorkshire.--His disagreeable disposition.--Incident about riding.--Disastrous effect of my tutor's intellectual influence upon me.--My private reading.--My tutor's ignorance of modern authors.--His ignorance of the fine arts.--His religious intolerance.--I declare my inability to sign the Thirty-nine Articles.

Choice of a profession.--Love of literature and art.--Decision to make trial of both.--An equestrian tour.--Windermere.--Derwentwater.--I take lessons from Mr. J. P. Pettitt.--Ulleswater.--My horse turf.--Greenock, a discovery.--My unsettled cousin.--Glasgow.--Loch Lomond.--Inverary.--Loch Awe.--Inishail.--Inmstrynich.--Oban.--A sailing excursion.--Mull and Ulva.--Solitary reading.

A journal.--Self-training.--Attempts in periodical literature.--The time given to versification well spent.--Practical studies in art.-- Beginning of Mr. Ruskin's influence.--Difficulty in finding a master in landscape-painting.--Establishment of the militia.--I accept a commission.--Our first training.--Our colonel and our adjutant.--The Grand Llama.--Paying off the men.

A project for studying in Paris.--Reading.--A healthy life.-- Quinsy.--My most intimate friend.

London again.--Accurate habits in employment of time.--Studies with Mr. Pettitt.--Some account of my new master.--His method of technical teaching.--Simplicity of his philosophy of art.--Incidents of his life.--Rapid progress under Pettitt's direction.

Acquaintance with R. W. Mackay.--His learning and accomplishments.--His principal pursuit.--His qualities as a writer.--Value of the artistic element in literature.--C. R. Leslie, R. A.--Robinson, the line-engraver.--The Constable family.--Mistaken admiration for minute detail.--Projected journey to Egypt.--Mr. Ruskin.--Bonomi.--Samuel Sharpe.--Tennyson.

A Visit to Rogers.--His Home.--Geniality in poets.--Talfourd.--Sir Walter Scott.--Leslie's picture, "The Rape of the Lock."--George Leslie.--Robert Leslie.--His nautical instincts.--Watkiss Lloyd.--Landseer.--Harding.--Richard Doyle.

Miss Marian Evans.--John Chapman, the publisher.--My friend William Shaw.--His brother Richard.--Mead, the tragedian.--Mrs. Rowan and her daughter.--A vexatious incident.--I suffer from nostalgia for the country.

Some of my relations emigrate to New Zealand.--Difficulties of a poor gentleman.--My uncle's reasons for emigration.--His departure.--Family separations.--Our love for Hollins.

Resignation of commission in the militia.--Work from nature.--Spenser, the poet.--Hurstwood.--Loch Awe revisited.--A customer.--I determine to learn French well.--A tour in Wales.--Swimming.--Coolness on account of my religious beliefs.--My guardian.--Evil effects of religions bigotry.--Refuge in work.--My drawing-master.--Our excursion in Craven.

Publication of "The Isles of Loch Awe and other Poems."--Their sale.--Advice to poetic aspirants.--Mistake in illustrating my book of verse.--Its subsequent history.--Want of art in the book.--Too much reality.--Abandonment of verse. A critic in "Fraser."--Visit to Paris in 1855.--Captain Turnbull.--Ball at the H?tel de Ville.--Louis Napoleon and Victor Emmanuel.

Specialities in painting.--Wyld's practice.--Projected voyage on the Loire.--Birth of the Prince Imperial.--Scepticism about his inheritance of the crown.--The Imperial family.--I return home.--Value of the French language to me.

My first encampment in Lancashire.--Value of encamping as a part of educational discipline.--Happy days in camp.--The natural and the artificial in landscape.--Sir James Kay Shuttleworth's Exhibition project.--I decline to take an active part in it.--His energetic and laborious disposition.--Charlotte Bront?.--General Scarlett.

I visit the homes of my forefathers at Hamerton, Wigglesworth, and Hellifield Peel.--Attainder and execution of Sir Stephen Hamerton. --Return of Hellifield Peel to the family.--Sir Richard.--The Hamertons distinguished only for marrying heiresses.--Another visit to the Peel, when I see my father's cousin.--Nearness of Hellifield Peel and Hollins.

Expedition to the Highlands in 1857.--Kindness of the Marquis of Breadalbane and others.--Camp life, its strong and peculiar attraction.--My servant.--Young Helliwell.--Scant supplies in the camp.--Nature of the camp.--Necessity for wooden floors in a bad climate.--Double-hulled boats.--Practice of landscape- painting.--Changes of effect.--Influences that governed my way of study in those days.--Attractive character of the Scottish Highlands.--Their scenery not well adapted for beginners.--My intense love of it.

Small immediate results of the expedition to the Highlands.--Unsuitable system of work.--Loss of time.--I rent the house and island of Innistrynich.--My dread of marriage and the reasons for it.--Notwithstanding this I make an offer and am refused.--Two young ladies of my acquaintance.--Idea of a foreign marriage.--Its inconveniences.--Decision to ask for the hand of Mdlle. Gindriez.--I go to Paris and am accepted.--Elective affinities.

Reception at home after engagement.--Preparations at Innistrynich.--I arrive alone in Paris.--My marriage.--The religious ceremony.--An uncomfortable wedding.--The sea from Dieppe.--London.--The Academy Exhibition of 1858.--Impressions of a Frenchwoman.--The Turner collection.--The town.--Loch Awe.--The element wanting to happiness.

MEMOIR.

My first sight of Loch Awe.--Arrival at Innistrynich.--Our domestic life.--Difficulties about provisions.--A kitchen-garden.

Money matters.--Difficulties about servants.--Expensiveness of our mode of life.

Painting from nature.--Project of an exhibition.--Photography.--Plan of "A Painter's Camp."--Topographic art.--Charm of our life in the Highlands.

English and French manners.--My husband's relatives.--First journey to France after our marriage.--Friends in London.--Miss Susan Hamerton.

Visits from friends and relatives.--A Frenchman in the Highlands.-- Project of buying the island of Innistrynich.

Financial complications.--Summer visitors.--Boats and boating.--Visit to Paris.--W. Wyld.--Project of a farm in France.--Partnership with M. Gindriez.

Effects of the Highland climate.--Farewell to Loch Awe.--Journey to the south of France.--Death of Miss Mary Hamerton.--Settlement at Sens.--Death of M. Gindriez.--Publication of "A Painter's Camp." --Removal to Pr?-Charmoy.

Canoeing on the Unknown River.--Visit of relatives.--Tour in Switzerland.--Experiments in etching.--The "Saturday Review."--Journeys to London.--Plan of "Etching and Etchers."--New friends in London.--Etching exhibited at the Royal Academy.--Serious illness in London.--George Eliot.--Professor Seeley.

Studies of animals.--A strange visitor.--Illness at Amiens.--Resignation of post on the "Saturday Review."--Nervous seizure in railway train.--Mrs. Craik.--Publication of "Etching and Etchers." --Tennyson.--Growing reputation in America.

"Wenderholme."--The Mont Beuvray.--Botanical studies.--La Tuilerie.--Commencement of "The Portfolio."--The Franco-Prussian War.

Landscape-painting.--Letters of Mr. Peter Graham, R.A.--Incidents of the war-time.--"The Intellectual Life."--"The Etcher's Handbook."

Popularity of "The Intellectual Life."--Love of animals.--English visitors.--Technical notes.--Sir S. Seymour Haden.--Attempts to resume railway travelling.

"Round my House."--Journey to England after seven years' absence.--Visit to Mr. Samuel Palmer.--Articles for the "Encyclopedia Britannica." --Death of my sister.--Mr. Appleton.

"Marmorne."--Paris International Exhibition.--"Modern Frenchmen." --Candidature for the Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Arts.--The Bishop of Autun.--The "Life of Turner."

Third edition of "Etching and Etchers."--Kew.--The "Graphic Arts."--"Human Intercourse."

"Paris."--Miss Susan Hamerton's death.--Burnley revisited.--Hellifield Peel.--"Landscape" planned.--Voyage to Marseilles.

"Landscape."--The Autobiography begun.--"Imagination in Landscape Painting."--"The Sa?ne."--"Portfolio Papers."

"Man in Art" begun.--Family events.--Mr. G. F. Watts.--Mr. Bodley.--"French and English."

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