Barnes & Noble Digital Library

This posthumous 1895 collection brings together, from many different journals and magazines, Pater’s influential and wide-ranging writings. The contents include “Prosper Mérimée,” “Raphael,” “Pascal,” “Art Notes in Northern Italy,” “Notre-Dame d’Amiens,” “Vézelay,” “Apollo in Picardy,” “The Child in the House,” “Emerald Uthwart,” and one of his earliest essays, “Diaphaneité,” a meditation on the sensual and the moral.