The Bibelot
In reprinting the entire text of Simeon Solomon's sole contribution to literature we may well congratulate our readers that in addition to Mr. Swinburne's essay[1] we are at the last moment able to append a contemporary review of the Vision by John Addington Symonds, which for almost four decades has remained lying "out of sight out of mind" in the pages of the London Academy.[2]
We were, indeed, tempted to make use of an article by Mr. Robert Ross in this same tried and true expositor of literary excellence under date of Dec. 23, 1905, but with the Symonds causerie before us it was hardly worth while, seeing that Mr. Ross has no word which even remotely goes to explain the poem.[3] Other than a closing observation that it "ought to be republished
- ↑ Already given in The Bibelot, vol. xiv pp. 291-316. (September, 1908.)
- ↑ See the Academy, vol. ii, pp. 189-190. (April 1, 1871.)
- ↑ Inferentially he does attempt to limn—some might maliciously say dislimb!—the artist. "Physically he was a small, red man, with keen, laughing eyes," and, "When I had the pleasure of seeing him
