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aversion to cricket.--Early readings.--Love of Scott.--My first library.--Classical studies.

CHAPTER VIII.
1845.
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.

CHAPTER IX.
1846.
Early interest in theology.--Reports of sermons.--Quiet influence of Mr. Cape.--Failure of Mr. Cape's health.--His death.

CHAPTER X.
1847-1849.
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.

CHAPTER XI.
1850.
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.

CHAPTER XII.
1850.
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."

CHAPTER XIII.
1850.
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.

CHAPTER XIV.
1851.
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.

CHAPTER XV.
1851-1852.
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.

CHAPTER XVI.
1852.
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.

CHAPTER XVII.
1853.
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.

CHAPTER XVIII.
1853.
A project for studying in Paris.--Reading.--A healthy life.-- Quinsy.--My most intimate friend.

CHAPTER XIX.
1853.
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.

CHAPTER XX.
1653-1854.
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.

CHAPTER XXI.
1854.
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.

CHAPTER XXII.
1854.
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.

CHAPTER XXIII.
1854.
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.

CHAPTER XXIV.
1854.
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.

CHAPTER XXV.
1855.
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.

CHAPTER XXVI.
1855.
Thackeray's family in Paris.--Madame Mohl.--Her husband's encouraging theory about learning languages.--Mr. Scholey.--His friend, William Wyld.--An Indian in Europe.--An Italian adventuress.--Important meeting with an American.--Its consequences.--I go to a French hotel.--People at the _table d'hote_.--M. Victor Ouvrard.--His claim on the Emperor.--M. Gindriez.--His family.--His eldest daughter.

CHAPTER XXVII.
1856.
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.

CHAPTER XXVIII.
1856.
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.

CHAPTER XXIX.
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.

CHAPTER XXX.
1857.
Expedition to the Highlands in 1857.--Kindness of the Marquis of Breadalbane and others.--Camp life, its strong and peculiar attraction.--My