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Sen.
203
Plin., N.H. 204
Flin., N.II. 204
211. The Earth is an Organism analagous to the
Human Body,
212. An Inquiry into the Cause of Earthquakes,
213. The Fallacy that the Tops of the Highest Moun-
tains might be expected to be Warmer than
214. Some Remunes Properties of Minerals,
215. An Account of Copper Ore and Copper Mines,
216. An Explanation of the Superior Hardness of
Cement that has been subjected to the Ac-
tion of Fire,
217. An Analysis of the Different Properties of Stone-
producing Soils,
218. An Account of Reflecting Substances,
219. The Reason of the Reflection in a Mirror,
220. A Short Account of the Properties of Lead,
221. An Account of the Magnet,
222. The Wonderful Properties of the Diamond,
*223. The Chief Distinctive Properties common to
Precious Stones,
The Earth :-(6.) Organic Vature.
224. The Four Graduated Stages of Creation: the
Vegetable, the Animal, the Human, the
Divine,
211
223. The Mental Development of Animals excludes
them from attaining “the Good,”
226. The Different Classes of (Vegetable and) Animal
Life formed by a Difference in the proportion
of the Four Original Elements,
Vitrur. 212
227. A Stage in all Organic Bodies at which Growth
and Development cease, and Decay begins, . Lucr.
213
228. Certain Distinctions of Species cannot be obliter-
ated, .
Lucr.
229. Owing to the Struggle for Existence, Species tend
to become Extinct if not artificially preserved, Lucr.
214
270. An Explanation of the Qualities of Timber, Vitruv. 215
231, 232. Description of the best-known and most
serviceable Woods,
Vitruv. 215
233, 234. Effect of Climatic and Meteorological Con-
ditions upon various Trees and Plants, Plin., N.H. 217
235. The Marvellous Variety of Animal Life,
Cic.
218
236. Nature has supplied all Living Creatures with
the most Appropriate Organs for obtaining
their Food,
219
237. Instinct suggests to Animals the readiest and
most effective means of satisfying their Ne.
cessities,
238. The Source of Instinct an Unsolved Mystery, Plin., N.H. 220
"239. The Sanitary Features of a District may be in.
ferred from the Effect of its Vegetable Pro-
ducts upon the Animals that inhabit it, Vitruv. 221
240. On Variation of Type and Hybridation, · Plin., N.H. 221
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241. Some Particulars as to the Geograpbical Distri-
bution of Animals,
242. Natural History of the Lion,
243. The Means of Locomotion among Birds, .
244. Natural History of the Phænix,
245. On the Senses of Animals,
3. Jan.
246. Climate determines the Physical Characteristics
of Nations,
Vitruv.
226
247. Climate determines the Mental Qualities of
Nations,
Vitruv, 226
248. The Situation of Italy favonrable to the De-
velopment of the Highest Physical and
Mental Capacity,
Vitruv. 227
249. A Comparison of Man with the rest of Creation, Plin., N.ii. 298
250. Opinions and Statistics with reference to Lon-
gevity,
Plin., N.H. 228
251. The Question of Life after Death discussed from
a Physical Point of View,
Plin., N.II. 229
252. The Brain,
Plin., N. 11. 230
253. On Sleep and Dreams,
Plin., N.H. 230
254. The Cause of a Good Memory,
231
253. The Problem discussed, why the Things which
excite our several Senses most keenly are
those that produce Satiety the soonest, Cic.
232
256. Arguments to show the Natural as distinct froin
the Conventional Origin of Language,
Aul. Gell.. 232
257. On the Nature of Sight,
233
258. A Disquisition on Colours hy the Philosopher
Favorinus,
Aul. Gell. 234
259. A Continuation by Fronti,
Aul. Gell.. 234
260. On Sounds,
Vitruv. 235
261. The Principles of Geometrical Proportion are
based on the Proportional Relations which
obtain in the Human Body,
Vitruv. 236
262. Reasons, founded on Observation of the Human
Body, why Six and Ten should be considered
Perfect Numbers,
Vitruv. 237
263. Nature Hostile to Man,
237
264, 265. A Short History of the Art of Medicine, Cels.
238
266. Arguments for a Scientific Method in Medicine, Cels.
240
267. Arguments used by those who advocate Empiri-
cism in Medicine,
Cels.
241
268. The Arguments for Vivisection were in the First
Century of the Empire extended so as to
include the Human Subject, .
242
269. Arguments commonly urged against Vivisection, Cels. 242
270. A few Remarks on Surgery, with the Qualitica-
tions of a good Surgeon,
243
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PART III.-ART AND LETTERS.
A.-ON THE ARTS GENERALLY.
1. Painting.
1. The Early History of Painting in Greece and Italy, Plin., N.H. 245
2. A Short Historical Criticism of Greek Painting, Quint. 246
3, Celebrated Painters at Rome,
Plin., N.H. 246
4. The Ignorant Ostentation of Wealth has caused
the Art of Painting to degenerate,
Plin., N.H. 247
5. Portraits the chief use of Painting in Antiquity :
Varro's Process for multiplying Coloured Im-
pressions,
Plin., N.H. 248
6. Foreshortening invented by Pausias,
Plin., N.H. 249
7. The Ancient Masters of Antiquity produced their
Effects with very few Colours,
8. Some Facts concerning Apelles,
9. The Idea of Landscape Painting seems to have
struck a Painter named Ludius: though not
taken up by any Successor,
Plin., N.H. 250
:
2. Statuary.
10. A Short Criticism of Greek Statuary,
11. Draped Effigies at first usual at Rome: the Nude
adopted through Greek Influence,
12. A List of some of the more Ancient Statues at
Rome,
13. Antiquity of the Art of Statuary in Italy,
14. The various Modes of fusing Metals practised in
Statuary,
15. An Account of various Colossal Statues in Bronze
in Greece and Rome,
16. Some Facts relative to the Art of Moulding in
Clay,
Plin., N.H. 252
Plin., N.H. 253
Plin., N.II. 254
Plin., V.II. 255
3. Miscellaneous Passages.
17. History of the Art of Chasing Silver,
18. Notices relative to Gold Rings,
19. Description of the Chasing on a Goblet,
20. Description of the Temple of Diana at Ephesus,
Plin., N.H. 255
Plin., N.H. 256
Mart.,
257
Plin., N.H. 258
4. Music.
21. The Origin of Music,
22. Technical Development of the Art of Music,
Lucr. 258
Plin., N.H. 259
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23. The Value of Music as bracing the Mental Tone
and strengthening the Character,
Quint.
24. The Value of Music as an Aid to Literary Culture, Quint.
259
260
5. The Drama.
261
262
263
25. First Introduction of the Drama into Rome, and
Subsequent Development,
Liv.
26. Progress of Dramatic Art,
Hor.
27. Licentiousness of the Mimes, and General In-
decency of the Stage under the Emperors, Ov.
28. Terence complains that a Play has no fair chance
against the more Sensational Attractions of
the Amphitheatre,
Ter.
29. In the time of Augustus the Drama had fallen
into almost Total Neglect in comparison with
the various forms of “Spectacle,"
30. The Degenerate Nobles, incapable of appreciating
True Greatness, substitute for it the False
Ambition of the Stage,
Juv.
31. Nero's Passion for the Stage,
Tac.
32. Defence of the Practice of Contamination,”
33. Roscius, the great Comic Actor,
34. Changes in the Arrangements of the Comic Stage, Suet
35. Observations on the Construction of Theatres, Suet.
264
265
266
B.—THEORY OF THE ORATORICAL ART.
1. The Orator and Oratorical Style.
36. The Ideal Orator and Ideal Eloquence are more
perfect than anything as yet realised, Cic.
37. Genius of Greek Eloquence contrasted with that
of Latin,
38. Different Theories as to the Origin of Eloquence,
of Eloquence, Quint.
39. Qualitications of the Perfect Orator. - (a.) Power
of Invention,
40. (6.) Power of Expression by Voice and Gesture, Cic.
41. (c.) A Just Sense of Propriety in his Choice of
Style,
42. (d.) A nice Discrimination in the Employment of
Wit and Humour,
43. (e.) The Power of arousing the Emotions,
44. F.) A Mind well stored with Philosophy, Dia.
lectic, Ethics, and Physics,
45. (9.) Also with
Legal Knowledge, History, and
Technical Rhetoric, .
46. (h.) He should be a Student of Poetry,
47. (i.) He should know how to imitate,
48. "(k.) He should know whom to imitate,
271
272
273
274
275
275 No.
49. (2.) Power of Memory,
50. The Practice of Translation from Greek Models
important for the Orator,
51. To re-cast his own Speeches, and to paraphrase
those of Others, will conduce to the Im-
provement of the Orator's Style,
52. The Orator's Style distinct from that of the Philo-
sopher and the Sophist,
53. The Orator's Style distinct from that of the
Historian or the Poet,
54. Characteristics of the Three Representative Styles
of Oratory,
53. To blend these 'Three Styles in just Proportion the
Perfection of Oratory,
36. The True Attic Style: Mistaken Notions of the
Pseudo-Atticisto,
57. Purity of Idiom best attained by the Daily Inter-
course of a Cultured Home,
2. Rhetoric.
53. The Study of Rhetoric long viewed with Suspicion
in Rome,
Suet.
282
59. Sketch of the Theoretical Treatment of the Art of
Rhetoric,
Quint. 292
60. The Best Classification of the Departments of
Quint. 283
61. Main Heads of Treatment applicable to all Cases Auct.
alike,
ad Herenn. 294
02. These Heads of Treatment correspond with the
“ Generales Status" of Cicero and others, Quint. 285
63. The Two Sorts of Composition practised in the
Schools: the “Suasoria” and the “ Con-
troversia,”
Тас.
286
64. The Style of the “Suasoria” not at all suited for
the Real Cases argued in the Courts,
65. The Chief Merit of a "Suasoria,"
Quint. 287
66. The more Practical Character of the “Con-
trorersiae,”
288
67. On “ Finitae” and “ Infinitae Quaestiones," Quint. 289
68. The Six Formal Divisions of a “ Controversia,”
| Auct.
ad Herenn. 289
69. Hints for rendering the Introduction to a Speech | Auct.
Effective,
( ad Herenn. 290
70. Faults to be avoided in the Introduction to a SAuct.
Speech,
Tad Herenn. 290
71. On the Chief Excellences of Narration,
• 1 ad Herenn. 291
72. Within what Limits is it Permissible to insert
Ornamental Digressions between the Exposi.
tion and the Proof? .
Quint. 291
73. On the Most Effective Arrangement of the Auct.
Proof,
( ad Ilerenn.
292
