“ ‘Freedom and hope,’ says Fergusson , in his True Principles of Beauty in Art, ‘ are the first two principles of greatness in art as in everything else ; and servility and despair of doing better than has been done before must cramp the noblest genius and hide the highest aim.’

It has been well said that if there is one word by which an artist or critic may be tested, — a single term in which all truth in art and all virtue in action might be summed up , in which we could find all the essence of a mind or the purpose of a life , — it should be the term Ideal.”

—The Builder., VOL. XXVI.—No. 1330. Memorials of Old London and Old London Life.* AUG. 1 , 1868. ] p. 567

* Memorials of London and Loudon Life in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries. Being a series of extracts, local, social, and political, from the early archives of the City of London, A.D. 1276-1419. Selected, translated, and edited by Henry Thomas Riley, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; and of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Published by order of Inner Temple, Barrister- at- Law. Published by order of the Corporation of London, under the superintendence of the Library Committee. London : Longmans, Green, & Co. 1868.