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Rh, 65; excite reflex action, 72; their expression of the quality of Beauty, 153-155; actually operative, 154; appeal, through all the senses alike, to spiritual feeling, ib.; Beauty's under-vibration, 180; and see Rhythm, etc., and.

Victorian Period, School of, 55; Browning, 110; In Memoriam, 212; its reserve, 265; and see 125, 138.

, by the author of this volume: references to, 33, 61, 108, 177, 192, 226, 269.

Villon, 167, 171, 184.

Virility, of the ancients, 142; of scientists, ib.; of recent poets, ib.; healthfulness of impersonal effort, 142; and see Masculinity.

Vision, absolute and unconditioned, 77-80; conditioned, 80; clearness of the artistic, 233; Blake on, ib.; the poet dependent on, 234; and see 255.

Vocabulary, the poet's, how acquired, 10; and see Diction.

Volapük, 216.

Voltaire, 82.

, Schiller, 104.

Waller, 171.

Ward, J. Q. A., sculptor, 13, 200.

Watts, T., essay on Poetry in the ''Encyc. Brit''., 25, 26, 28.

Waverley Novels, the, 131.

Webster, John, 108; The Duchess of Malfi, 249.

Webster, D., and Choate, reminiscence of, 192.

"Wertherism," 121.

Westward Ho! Kingsley, 137.

"West Wind, Ode to the," Shelley, 266.

"What is the Use?" Ellsworth, 289.

White, R. G., critic, cited, 246.

"White Rose, The," anon., quoted, 171.

Whitman, W., his Americanism, 129; as a poet of Nature, 195; compared with Lanier, 196; his defects, ib.; genius and cosmic mood, 253; quoted, 38; and see 35, 158.

Whittier, national sentiment of, 129; passion of his song, 268; a poet of sympathy, ib.; Snow-Bound, ib.; and see 136, 195.

"Will Waterproof's Lyrical Monologue," Tennyson, 215.

Wilson, J., 58.

Winter's Tale, A, Shakespeare, 189.

Wisdom, of true genius, 284; and see Didacticism, Truth, etc.

Wit, 213.

Witch of Atlas, The, Shelley, 246.

With Fire and Sword, Sienkiewicz, 137.

Wonder, 245; and see Imagination.

"Woodnotes," Emerson, 225.

Words, the Power of. See Language.

Wores, T., painter, quoted, 31.

Wordsworth, on imagination, 20; on prose and verse, ib.; on