Chapter XVII: Sidenote: Journal, 1873 (3)

Reception of "Middlemarch"--Letter to John Blackwood--Mr.
Anthony Trollope--Dutch translation of George Eliot's
novels--Letter to Mrs. Cross--Evening drives at
Weybridge--Letter to John Blackwood--German reprint of
"Spanish Gypsy"--"The Lifted Veil"--"Kenelm
Chillingly"--Letter to Mrs. William Smith on her Memoir of
her husband--Pleasure in young life--Letter to John
Blackwood--Want of a Conservative leader--Letter to Mr.
Burne-Jones--The function of art--Purpose in art--"Iphigenia
in Aulis"--Letter to Mrs. Congreve--Welcoming her
home--Letter to Mrs. William Smith on women at
Cambridge--Visit to Mr. Frederic Myers at Cambridge--Meets
Mr. Henry Sidgwick, Mr. Jebb, Mr. Edmund Gurney, Mr. Balfour,
and Mr. Lyttelton, and Mrs. and Miss Huth--Letter to Mrs.
Bray--Death of Miss Rebecca Franklin--Visit to the Master of
Balliol--Meets Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roundell--Professor
Green--Max Müller--Thomson, the Master of Trinity College,
Cambridge--Nine-weeks' trip to the Continent--Letter to Mrs.
Congreve from Homburg--Fontainebleau, Plombières, and
Luxeuil--Two months' stay at Bickley--Letter to Mrs. Cross on
journey abroad and Blackbrook--Letter to John Blackwood--New
edition of "Middlemarch"--A real Lowick in a Midland
county--Cheap editions--Letter to Mrs. Cross on the pleasures
of the country and on Mr. Henry Sidgwick--Letter to Mrs.
Peter Taylor--House in the country--Letter to J. W. Cross on
conformity--Letter to John Blackwood--Interruptions of town
life--Simmering towards another book--Berlin reading
"Middlemarch"--Ashantee war--Letter to Madame Bodichon--The
George Howards--John Stuart Mill's Autobiography--Letter to
Mrs. Cross on Christmas invitation--Dr. Andrew Clark--Letter
to Mrs. Bray on stupidity of readers--Letter to Mrs. Peter
Taylor--Retrospect of 1873--Sales of "Middlemarch" and
"Spanish Gypsy"--Letter to Mrs. William Smith--"Plain living
and high thinking"--Letter to John Blackwood--Conservative
reaction--Cheaper edition of novels--Lord Lytton's
"Fables"--Dickens's Life and biography in general--Letter to
John Blackwood--Volume of poems--Letter to Mrs. Bray--Motives
for children--Letter to Miss Hennell--Francis Newman--George
Dawson--"The Legend of Jubal and other Poems"
published--"Symposium" written--Letter to Miss Mary Cross
thanking her for a vase--Letter to Mrs. Cross--Delight in
country--Letter to John Blackwood--Threatened restoration of
the empire in France--"Brewing" "Deronda"--Letter to Mrs.
Peter Taylor on Mrs. Nassau Senior's report--Letter to Mrs.
William Smith on consolations in loss--Letter to Madame
Bodichon--No disposition to melancholy--Letter to Mrs.
Burne-Jones--The serious view of life--Letter to John
Blackwood--Justifications for writing--Dean Liddell--Letter
to Mrs. Stowe--Goethe's mysticism--Letter to Miss
Hennell--Visit to Six-Mile Bottom--Paris and the
Ardennes--Bank of England and Woolwich Arsenal--Letter to
Mrs. Ponsonby--The idea of God an exaltation of human
goodness--Vision of others' needs--Ground of moral
action--Need of altruism--The power of the will--Difficulties
of thought--Sales of books--Retrospect of 1874--Letter to
Francis Otter on his engagement--Letter to Mrs. Peter
Taylor--Note-writing--Home for girls--Letter to Mrs.
Ponsonby--Value of early religious experience--Limitations of
scientists--Letter to John Blackwood--Kinglake's
"Crimea"--Discipline of war--"Rasselas"--Miss
Thackeray--Anthony Trollope--Letter to Mrs. Ponsonby--Desire
to know the difficulties of others--Companion in the struggle
of thought--Mr. Spencer's teaching--The value of
poets--Emotion blending with thought--Letter to Mrs. William
Smith--Her memoir--Letter to Mrs. Burne-Jones--The world of
light and speech--Letter to Mrs. Peter
Taylor--Rickmansworth--Letter to F. Harrison asking for
consultation--Letter to J. W. Cross--"The
Elms"--Depression--Letter to Mrs. Ponsonby--The Brewing
interest--Conciliation of necessitarianism with will--Innate
ideas--Death of Herbert Lewes--Trip to Wales--Letter to John
Blackwood--Not satisfied with "Deronda"--Letter to Mrs. Peter
Taylor--Mode of publication of books--Letter to John
Blackwood--Gwendolen--Letter to Miss Hennell--Miss
Lewis--Letter to John Blackwood--Impressions of
"Deronda"--Major Lockhart--Depression about "Deronda."

FOOTNOTES:

[21] Death of Mrs. Cross's sister of cholera, at Salzburg.

[22] See _ante_, p. 66.

[23] "Paul Bradley."

[24] A vase with paintings from "Romola" on tiles.

[25]
"Tristi fummo
Nell'aer dolce che dal sol s'allegra."

_Inferno_, cant. vii. 121, 122.

[26] Bessborough Gardens.

[27] I had been abroad for six weeks.