Chapter I: Front Matter

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RUSKIN RELICS

RUSKIN RELICS

BY

W. G. COLLINGWOOD

AUTHOR OF
"THE LIFE OF JOHN RUSKIN," ETC.

WITH FIFTY ILLUSTRATIONS BY
JOHN RUSKIN AND OTHERS

NEW YORK
T. Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS
1904

_Twelve chapters are here reprinted, with some additions, from "Good Words," by the courtesy of the Editor and Publishers. Another, on Ruskin's Drawings, is adapted, by permission, from the author's "Prefatory Notes to the Catalogue of the Ruskin Exhibition at the Gallery of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours" in 1901. The first chapter is newly written for this book._

_W. G. C._

_Coniston, September 1903_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Ruskin's Chair 1

II. Ruskin's "Jump" 13

III. Ruskin's Gardening 29

IV. Ruskin's Old Road 45

V. Ruskin's "Cashbook" 63

VI. Ruskin's Ilaria 83

VII. Ruskin's Maps 105

VIII. Ruskin's Drawings 119

IX. Ruskin's Hand 133

X. Ruskin's Music 149

XI. Ruskin's Jewels 165

XII. Ruskin's Library 179

XIII. Ruskin's Bibles 193

XIV. Ruskin's "Isola" 213

Index 299

ILLUSTRATIONS

_Page_
_Ruskin's Study at Brantwood_ 5

_Brantwood Harbour in the Seventies_ 17

_Coniston Hall and Boathouse_ 18

_Ruskin's "Jump" adrift off Brantwood_ 19

_The Ruskin Museum, Coniston_ 22

_Trial Model for the Jumping Jenny_ 25

_The Waterfall at Brantwood Door_ 33

_Ruskin's Reservoir, Brantwood_ 37

_Ruskin's Moorland Garden_ 41

_On Ruskin's Old Road, between Morez and Les Rousses, 1882_ 53

_Lake of Geneva and Dent d'Oches under the Smoke-cloud_ 57

_The Gorge of Monnetier and Buttresses of the Saleve, 1882_ 61

_Mont Blanc clearing; Sallenches, Sept. 1882_ 67

_The Head of the Lake of Annecy_ 71

_The Mont Cenis Tunnel in Snow, Nov. 11, 1882_ 75

_A Savoy Town in Snow, Nov. 1882_ 79

_The Palace of Paolo Guinigi, Lucca_ 87

_Ilaria del Carretto; head of the Effigy_ 91

_Thunderstorm clearing, Lucca_ 95

_The Marble Mountains of Carrara from the Lucca Hills_ 99

_Ruskin's first Map of Italy_ 108

_Geology on the Old Road, by John Ruskin_ 109

_Sketch of Spain, by John Ruskin_ 112

_Physical Sketch of Savoy, by John Ruskin_ 113

_The History of France, by John Ruskin_ 117

_Early Journal at Coniston, by John Ruskin_ 137

_Ruskin's Handwriting in 1836_ 139

_Ruskin's Handwriting in 1837_ 141

_Notes for "Stones of Venice," by John Ruskin_ 143

_Ruskin's Handwriting in 1875_ 145

_Ruskin's Piano in Brantwood Drawing-room_ 153

_John Ruskin in the Seventies, by Prof. B. Creswick_ 157

_At Marmion's Grave; air by John Ruskin_ (_two pages of Music_) 160

_"Trust Thou Thy Love," facsimile of music by John Ruskin_ 163

_Gold as it Grows_ 169

_Native Silver, by John Ruskin_ 170

_Page from an early Mineral Catalogue, by John Ruskin_ 171

_Letter on Snow Crystals, by John Ruskin_ 174

_Diamond Diagrams, by John Ruskin_ 175

_Ruskin's Swiss Figure_ 185

_His "Nuremberg Chronicle" and Pocket "Horace"_ 189

_The Bible from which John Ruskin learnt in Childhood_ 197

_Sermon-book written by Ruskin as a Boy_ 199

_Greek Gospels with Annotations by Ruskin_ 201

_King Hakon's Bible, owned by Ruskin_ 203

_An Illuminated Page of King Hakon's Bible_ 207

_Lady Mount Temple, portrait by Edward Clifford_ 217

_Lady Mount Temple, chalk drawing by G. F. Watts, R.A_ 221

_Lady Mount Temple, 1886_ 223

_Lady Mount Temple, 1889_ 224

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RUSKIN'S CHAIR