“Still nursing the unconquerable hope,
  Still clutching the inviolable shade”—­

the hope and shade that never desert, even if they flit before and above, the servants and the lovers of the humaner literature.

INDEX.

* * * * * Alaric at Rome, 4.

Bacchanalia, or the New Age, 114. Balder Dead, 52, 53. Byron, Poetry of, ed.  Arnold, 185.

Celtic Literature, On the Study of, 66, 104 et seq. Church of Brou, The, 38. Consolation, 28. Cromwell, 8, 9. Culture and Anarchy, 128 et seq.

Discourses in America, 195. Dover Beach, 112.

Empedocles on Etna, 23. Essays in Criticism, 83 et seq., 123. Eton, A French, 79 et seq.

Farewell, A, 27. Forsaken Merman, The, 19. French Eton, A, 79 et seq. Friend, To a, sonnet, 15. Friendship’s Garland, 148.

God and the Bible, 137.

Heine’s Grave, 115. Homer, On Translating, 66.

In Utrumque Paratus, 20. Irish Essays, 151. Isolation, 31.

Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, ed.  Arnold, 169.

Last Essays on Church and Religion, 137, 142. Letters, 1, 15 et seq., 214. Lines written by a Death-bed, 32. Literature and Dogma, 131 et seq. Longing, 30.

Marguerite, To, 31. Memorial Verses, 26. Merman, The Forsaken, 19. Merope, 60. Mixed Essays, 168 et seq. Modern Sappho, The, 17. Mycerinus, 13.

New Sirens, The, 17.

Obermann, 53. On the Rhine, 29. On the Study of Celtic Literature, 66, 104 et seq. On the Terrace at Berne, 16. On Translating Homer, 66.

Preface, the, to the ‘Poems’ of 1853. 33 et seq. Prose Passages, 166.

Renan, Arnold’s relations with, 101. Requiescat, 39. Resignation, 20, 185. Rugby Chapel, 115.

Sainte-Beuve, 59, 203. Scholar-Gipsy, The, 5, 40 et seq. Schools and Universities on the Continent, 116. Selected Poems, 184.  Shairp, Principal, lines on Arnold by, 5. Shakespeare, Sonnet to, 15. Sick King in Bokhara, 15. Sohrab and Rustum, 37, 51, 52.  Southey, use of rhymeless metre by, 11. St Brandan, 111. St Paul and Protestantism, 130 et seq. Stagirius, 19. Strayed Reveller, The, 10 et seq. Summer Night, A, 26. Switzerland, 16.

Tennyson, influence of, on Arnold, 19. Thyrsis, 111. To Fausta, 19. To Marguerite, 31. To my Friends who Ridiculed a Tender Leave-taking, 16, 27. Tristram and Iseult, 24, 25.