The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art

Part I. is on "The Germ." He expresses himself sympathetically

enough; but his main drift is to show that the Praeraphaelite movement, after passing through some immature stages, developed into a quasi-Renaissance result. A perusal of his paper will show that Mr. Payne was one of the persons who supposed Chiaro dell'Erma, the hero of "Hand and Soul," to have been a re...