surprised if Sir Edward Carson's agitation were to produce in the
North-East of Ireland a crop of first-rate formal expression.]

[Footnote 9: Formerly he held that inanimate beauty also was good in
itself. But this tenet, I am glad to learn, he has discarded.]




III

THE CHRISTIAN SLOPE


I. THE RISE OF CHRISTIAN ART

II. GREATNESS AND DECLINE

III. THE CLASSICAL RENAISSANCE AND ITS DISEASES

IV. ALID EX ALIO


[Illustration: _Photo, Alinari_
BYZANTINE MOSAIC, SIXTH CENTURY
_S. Vitale, Ravenna_]