[Note: for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents to thebeginning of the text and slightly modified it to conform with the online format. Ihave also made two spelling corrections: "chippendale" to "Chippendale" and "closelyinterpendent" to "closely interdependent."]
THE BEAUTIFUL
AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL AESTHETICS
BY
VERNON LEE
Author of
"Beauty and Ugliness"
"Laurus Nobilis"
etc.
Cambridge:
at the University Press
New York:
G.P. Putnam's Sons
1913
![[Illustration: beautiful]](https://oldbook.b-cdn.net/kitaplar/3/pg26942-h/images/beautiful.png)
With the exception of the coat of arms
at the foot, the design on the title page is a
reproduction of one used by the earliest known
Cambridge printer, John Siberch, 1521
CONTENTS
| Preface and Apology | v | |
| I. | The Adjective "Beautiful" | 1 |
| II. | Contemplative Satisfaction | 8 |
| III. | Aspects versus Things | 14 |
| IV. | Sensations | 22 |
| V. | Perception of Relations | 29 |
| VI. | Elements of Shape | 35 |
| VII. | Facility and Difficulty of Grasping | 48 |
| VIII. | Subject and Object, or, Nominative and Accusative | 55 |
| IX. | Empathy (Einfühlung) | 61 |
| X. | The Movement of Lines | 70 |
| XI. | The Character of Shapes | 78 |
| XII. | From the Shape to the Thing | 84 |
| XIII. | From the Thing to the Shape | 90 |
| XIV. | The Aims of Art | 98 |
| XV. | Attention to Shapes | 106 |
| XVI. | Information about Things |