ABSTRACT
The Journal Intime of Henri Frédéric Amiel (1821–81), published posthumously, became one of the most discussed ‘confessional works’ of the nineteenth century. Mrs Humphry Ward's translation, to which Hutton refers, had been published in 1885. Matthew Arnold came to this celebrated work with some reluctance, he tells us—he shrunk, no doubt, from the excessive contemporary enthusiasm for it—and his essay, ‘Amiel’, did not appear until September 1887 (Macmillan's Magazine); he makes no reference to the parallel that might be drawn with Clough.
