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house on -the south side of the lake where Byron lived, 

 close to the one taken by the Shelleys and Glair that 

 memorable summer after Byron's separation from his wife 

 and before the birth of Allegra. Is it not all told in one of 

 the best, most complete, and most interesting biographies of 

 our day, Dbwden's ' Life of Shelley ' ? George Eliot spent 

 a happy time at Geneva as a girl, and I would gladly 

 have seen 18 Eue des Chamoines, where she lived and 

 rested and enjoyed herself with kind friends. And last 

 of all, there is the quiet corner where Amiel worked and 

 lived and wrote. Some time after his death a very 

 interesting review (by Lucas Malet) of Mrs. Humphry 

 Ward's translation of Armel's ' Journal Intime ' appeared 

 in the 'Fortnightly Eeview ' for May or June 1896. She 

 alludes several times to the short biography of Professor 

 Amiel by Mile. Berthe Vadier, which was published in 

 Paris, and thus describes the place where he lived : ' His 

 windows overlooked a well-filled flower garden ; the walls 

 of it were draped with Ivy and Virginia Creeper, above 

 which rises the ancient college of Calvin, while through 

 a side opening he could see the trees on the Promenade 

 Saint-Antoine, and the Eussian church, its gilded cupolas 

 backed by the purple hillside of the Grand Saleve.' 

 Amiel's biographer says : * II 6tait toujours beau.' 

 Lucas Malet adds : '.The dome of his head is very 

 fine, reminding one in height and purity of curve of the 

 head of Shakespeare, or of the modern writer who in 

 looks so curiously resembles him Dante Eossetti. But 

 with the brow all likeness to the great or lesser poet 

 ceases : the eyes and lower part of the face lacking the 

 glorious audacity and robustness of the first we accept 

 the witness of the Stratford bust and picture, rather than 

 that of the fancy portrait in Westminster Abbey equally 

 with the sensuous heaviness that so mars the beauty of 

 the second. For Amiel's face and head belong to a type 



