Contents
Prepace to the first edition ix
Sainte beuye on diderot xxi
on composition 1
My strange thoughts on drawing 11
A few ideas of kine on colour 18
'Vhat every one knows about expression, and some
Thing which .all the world does not know 26
A short corollary fboh the preceding article 31
A letter to iiy friend m. Grimm 33
extracts pboii "le salon," 1767 38
An essay on sculpture 72
Gbeuze 79
On dmerot's own portrait painted by michel van-loo 89
a scene proii the life of st. Gregory 93
The prince de conde; meet in the forest of Chantilly 95
Cossack and tartar troops dividing their spoil 99
A russian pastoral 101
A halt op peasants in the summer 103
William the conqueror's landing in england 105
The baptism of jesus christ by ST.John 108
St.Augustine writing his confessions 111
Andromache 112
An Evening Walk 117
Montesquieu and lord chesterfield 141
A letter on the deaf and dumb 146
A father's talks with his children 170
A lament for my old dressing-gown 208
A letter about the blind, for the use of those who can see 219
An eulogy of richardson 239
Appendix 265

an eulogy of rrooardbon 239 .
appendix 265