ON LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SUBJECTS. BY H. LONGUEVILLE JONES, M.A., MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT DU COMITÉ HISTORIQUE DES ARTS ET MONUMENTS. REPRINTED, BY PERMISSION, FROM " BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE" AND OTHER PERIODICALS. LONDON: J. RUSSELL SMITH, 36, SOHO SQUARE. 1870. 270. e. 158. PREFACE. THE Essays and Papers contained in this volume have already been published, now many years ago, principally in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine, and other periodicals. It was more consonant to the wishes of the author, on the advice of some friends, to give them a permanent and uniform existence a project which the kindness of his subscribers has aided him in carrying into effect; and the result has been the present volume. The circumstance of their having been originally composed previously to the year 1848, will account for some of the papers seeming to be incomplete and deficient in information. Thus the Paper on the "Modern Schools of Art in France, Belgium, and Switzerland" was first printed before the invention of photography, the first public experiments in which marvellous art the author was allowed to witness, when Daguerre performed them in presence of the French Institute: otherwise, in the Essay alluded to, it would have been impossible to avoid making mention of a discovery that was destined to revolutionise the whole world of art, by the education of the public eye alone. When the author threw together his observations on Architecture, the |