Essays on Life, Art and Science

The first of these, entitled 'L'Affaire Holbein-Rippel,' relates to a drawing of Holbein's 'Danse des Paysans,' in the Basle Museum, which is usually described as a copy, but which Butler believed to be the work of Holbein himself. This essay requires to be illustrated in so elaborate a manner that it was impossible to include it in a book of this size. The second essay, which is a sketch of the career of the sculptor Tabachetti, was published as the first section of an article entitled 'A Sculptor and a Shrine,' of which the second section is here given under the title, 'The Sanctuary of Montrigone.'