Excerpt from The Enchanted Island: The Venice of Titian, and Other Studies in Art T is not difficult to surmise how England became The Enchanted Island. The hardy fishermen pushing out from the western Shores of the great con tinent of Europe would see our white Cliffs, at dawn flushed with roseate light, at night-fall glorified by the setting sun. Such a line on the horizon - beautiful to look upon, perhaps dangerous to approach, certainly unexplored - might well be the land Of which even Heine dreamed. Myth first; then History; then Religion; always the struggle going on between good and evil. Now Science with its clear eyes; and the common-place work-a-day world with its dull eyes; and Nature with eyes as Of a god - a sun-god - so bright. And over all the spell Of an Enchanter's wand. That is the subject Of this little book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.