ABSTRACT
1. A variety of studies: renewed misgivings about taking orders: social contacts: Monckton-Milnes: Rogers: return to Chamouni. 2. Departure for Italy: "George" and Couttet: first stirrings of social conscience: Lucca and the tomb of Ilaria di Caretto: Pisa and the frescoes in the Campo Santo: Florence: Venice with Harding. 3. Discovery of Tintoret: fever: experience of prayer. 4, The poet "manqué": John fames' disappointment. 5. The second volume of "Modern Painters": the theoretic faculty: the aesthetic faculty: imagination: true taste: forms of beauty: understanding and emotion: the basis of inspiration. 6. Opinions of the work: Miss Mitford's survey: his reputation established.
