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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 Brontë.--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 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.

CHAPTER XXXI.
1857-1858.
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.

CHAPTER XXXII.
1858.
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.

CHAPTER I
1858.
My first sight of Loch Awe.--Arrival at Innistrynich.--Our domestic
life.--Difficulties about provisions.--A kitchen-garden.

CHAPTER II.
1858.
Money matters.--Difficulties about servants.--Expensiveness of our
mode of life.

CHAPTER III.
1858.

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

CHAPTER IV.
1858.
English and French manners.--My husband's relatives.--First journey to
France after our marriage.--Friends in London.--Miss Susan Hamerton.

CHAPTER V.
1859.
Visits from friends and relatives.--A Frenchman in the Highlands.--
Project of buying the island of Innistrynich.

CHAPTER VI.
1859-1860.
Financial complications.--Summer visitors.--Boats and boating.--Visit
to Paris.--W. Wyld.--Project of a farm in France.--Partnership with M.
Gindriez.

CHAPTER VII.
1861-1863.

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 Pré-Charmoy.

CHAPTER VIII.
1863-1868.
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.

CHAPTER IX.
1868.
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.

CHAPTER X.
1869-1870.
"Wenderholme."--The Mont Beuvray.--Botanical studies.--La
Tuilerie.--Commencement of "The Portfolio."--The Franco-Prussian
War.

CHAPTER XI.
1870-1872.
Landscape-painting.--Letters of Mr. Peter Graham, R.A.--Incidents of
the war-time.--"The Intellectual Life."--"The Etcher's Handbook."

CHAPTER XII.
1873-1875.
Popularity of "The Intellectual Life."--Love of animals.--English
visitors.--Technical notes.--Sir S. Seymour Haden.--Attempts to resume
railway travelling.

CHAPTER XIII.
1876-1877.
"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.

CHAPTER XIV.
1878-1880.
"Marmorne."--Paris International Exhibition.--"Modern Frenchmen."
--Candidature for the Watson Gordon Chair of Fine Arts.--The Bishop
of Autun.--The "Life of Turner."

CHAPTER XV.
1880-1882.
Third edition of "Etching and Etchers."--Kew.--The "Graphic
Arts."--"Human Intercourse."

CHAPTER XVI.
1882-1884.
"Paris."--Miss Susan Hamerton's death.--Burnley revisited.--Hellifield
Peel.--"Landscape" planned.--Voyage to Marseilles.

CHAPTER XVII.
1884-1888.
"Landscape."--The Autobiography begun.--"Imagination in Landscape
Painting."--"The Saône."--"Portfolio Papers."

CHAPTER XVIII.
1888-1890.
"Man in Art" begun.--Family events.--Mr. G. F. Watts.--Mr.
Bodley.--"French and English."

CHAPTER XIX.
1890-1891.
Decision to live near Paris.--Practice in painting and etching.--Search
for a house.--Clématis.

CHAPTER XX.
1891-1894.
Removal to Paris.--Interest in the Bois de Boulogne.--M.
Vierge.--"Man in Art."--Contributions to "Scribner's Magazine."--New
form of "The Portfolio."--Honorary degree.--Last Journey to
London.--Society of Illustrators.--Illness and death.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY
OF
PHILIP GILBERT HAMERTON
1834--1858

CHAPTER I.
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 principal reasons for writing an autobiography are because I am the
only person in the world who knows enough about my history to give a
truthful account of it, and because I dread the possibility of falling into
the hands of some writer who might attempt a biography with
inadequate materials. I have already been selected as a subject by two
or three biographers with very friendly intentions, but their friendliness
did not always ensure accuracy.