CHAPTER XXVII

: CONCLUSION 421

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_Frontispiece_ WILLIAM SHARP (1896), after an etching by William Strang, A. R. A.

_Facing Page_

DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI 58

WILLIAM SHARP (1883), after photograph taken in Rome 78

WALTER PATER, after a photograph by Frederick Hollyer 104

WILLIAM SHARP (1891), after a pastel drawing by Charles Ross 180

FAC-SIMILE OF AN AUTOGRAPH POEM BY WILLIAM SHARP 216

FAC-SIMILE OF AN AUTOGRAPH “FIONA MACLEOD” POEM BY WILLIAM SHARP 244

IL CASTELLO DI MANIACE, Bronte, Sicily, after a photograph by the Hon. Alex. Nelson Hood 332

WILLIAM SHARP (1903), after a photograph by the Hon. Alex. Nelson Hood (Duke of Bronte) 358

GEORGE MEREDITH, after a photograph by Frederick Hollyer 368

MRS. WILLIAM SHARP (1909), after a photograph by T. Craig-Annan 414

## PART I

WILLIAM SHARP

“_Praised be the fathomless universe, For life and joy ... and for love, sweet love._”

W. WHITMAN.

“_But one to whom life appeals by myriad avenues, all alluring and full of wonder and mystery, cannot always abide where the heart most longs to be. It is well to remember that there are Shadowy Waters, even in the cities, and that the Fount of Youth is discoverable in the dreariest towns as well as in Hy Brasil: a truth apt to be forgotten by those of us who dwell with ever-wondering delight in that land of lost romance which had its own day, as this epoch of a still stranger, if less obvious, romance has its passing hour._”

F. M.

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