Books by Mr. Story.
POEMS. I. Parchments and Portraits. II. Monologuesand Lyrics. 2 vols. 16mo, $2.50.
HE AND SHE; or, A Poet’s Portfolio. 18mo, illuminatedvellum, $1.00.
FIAMMETTA. A Novel. 16mo, $1.25.
ROBA DI ROMA. New Revised Edition, from newplates. With Notes. 2 vols. 16mo, $2.50.
CONVERSATIONS IN A STUDIO. 2 vols. 16mo, $2.50.
EXCURSIONS IN ART AND LETTERS. 16mo, $1.25.
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Boston and New York.
EXCURSIONS IN ART
AND LETTERS
BY
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY
D.C.L. (OXON.)
COMM. CORONA ITALIA, OFF. LEG. D’HONNEUR, ETC.
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1893
Copyright, 1891,
By WILLIAM WETMORE STORY.
All rights reserved.
THIRD EDITION.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A.
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| Michel Angelo | 1 |
| Phidias, and the Elgin Marbles | 49 |
| The Art of Casting in Plaster among the Ancient Greeks and Romans | 115 |
| A Conversation with Marcus Aurelius | 190 |
| Distortions of the English Stage as Instanced in “Macbeth” | 232 |
EXCURSIONS IN ART AND LETTERS.
MICHEL ANGELO.
The overthrow of the pagan religion was thedeathblow of pagan Art. The temples shook totheir foundations, the statues of the gods shuddered,a shadow darkened across the pictured andsculptured world, when through the ancient realmwas heard the wail, “Pan, great Pan is dead.”The nymphs fled to their caves affrighted. Dryads,Oreads, and Naiads abandoned the groves, mountains,and streams that they for ages had haunted.Their voices were heard no more singing by shadowybrooks, their faces peered no longer throughthe sighing woods; and of all the mighty train ofgreater and lesser divinities and