a portion of Letter 76. But for the sake of completeness it is here sub-
joined :-
"MR. RUSKIN-CURIOUS AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
"Mr. Ruskin announced, under date April 2nd, that he has, at the request of a
few Sheffield workmen, authorised the investment of £1200 in an estate of thirteen acres
of land near Sheffield, whereupon the workmen may spend what spare hours they have,
and for which they agree to pay 3 per cent. Mr. Ruskin says, 'Here at last is a
little piece of England given into the English workman's hand and heaven's.' Mr.
Ruskin also publishes his autobiography, saying his father left him £120,000, besides
property at Herne Hill, Denmark Hill, Greenwich, and pictures; and left his mother
£37,000. He gave £17,000 to his poor relations; sold the pictures, bought Brantwood,
assisted a young relation in business at a cost of £15,000, spent £15,000 on harness and
stables, and has given £14,000 to St. George, besides having spent £70,000 variously.
He is now worth £55,000, and announces that he will give the Marylebone property
absolutely to St. George's Company. The Herne Hill property he gives to his cousin,
and will finally invest the remaining £12,000, and live or die upon its interest.—Inverness
Courier."
Ruskin no doubt preserved the cutting for the comic instance of a
journalist's unintelligent summarising which is supplied by the underlined
words: see Letter 76, § 18 (above, p. 101).
The scheme of the present edition does not admit of an attempt to
include in the volumes devoted to Fors Clavigera a corrected and complete
Index to the work. Fors is indexed, as part of the editors' general plan, in
the General Index to the edition. But the separate Indices to Letters 1-48
were Ruskin's own, and he attached considerable importance to them.1
He also intended to complete them by similar Indices for the rest of Fors,
and he had nearly completed the notes necessary for that purpose. It
has, therefore, seemed right that his Indices should be completed and
incorporated here. It should be understood that, in preparing this "Ruskin
Index," the editors have made no attempt to make it exhaustive. They
have accepted his scale and method, and carried it through where he had
left the work undone. It is an Index to some of the topics which he
considered of principal importance.
The present Index, then, has been thus put together :-
(a) The two Indexes published by Ruskin have been combined. That
is to say, in the case of Letters 1-48, the references given are those (and,
with a few exceptions next to be stated, those only) which Ruskin gave in
his two volumes. This combination has occasionally necessitated rearrange-
ment and the transference of a reference from one head to another; in
fact, however, there are no omissions.
In a few places of the text of Fors Ruskin notes topics which ought
to have been, but were not, included in one or other of his two Indexes.
These topics have now been added. They are Beer," "Glass Pockets,"
and "Misery."
In a few places in Ruskin's Indices he included corrections of misprints
in the text of Fors, or notes explanatory of it. The corrections have all
1 See his references in Vol. XXVII. pp. 437, 505, 553, 568; Vol. XXVIII. p. 528;
and in the present volume, pp. 13, 166.
2 See Letters 62 (Vol. XXVIII. p. 528), 73, and 93 (above, pp. 22, 469).
been made in the text; and the notes, as already stated (p. 603), are now
transferred from the Index to the Text.
Ruskin's references were, in the case of Letters 1-36, to the number of
the Letter and to the page of each Letter; and in the case of Letters 37-48
to the number of the Letter and to the page of the volume. In the
present Index the references throughout are to Letters and sections (S$).
(b) Ruskin's copy of Fors Clavigera at Brantwood contains various Index
notes. In another copy, of which only volumes i., v., vi., and vii. (in
Mr. Wedderburn's possession) are forthcoming, he made many other Index
references. In this copy he thus noted Letters 49 (fully), 50-60 (sparsely),
61-72 (all fully), and 73-84 (mostly done). Thus in the case of Letters
1-48, Ruskin's printed Indexes have received some additions from his MS.
notes; while in the case of Letters 49-84, the Index references here given
are chiefly from the author's memoranda.
(c) Ruskin did not note volume viii. for Index; here, therefore, the
editors have supplied references; adhering, as above explained, to the scale,
and method of selection, which Ruskin's own indexing seemed to suggest.]
PRINCIPAL TOPICS IN "FORS CLAVIGERA"
The larger black numerals refer to the Letters; the smaller numerals,
to the Sections (SS)
The scope of this Index, as just explained on the preceding pages,
should be noted. The reader will bear in mind that reference should also
be made to the General Index to this edition.
A (letter), ornamental Greek form of, 61,
9; 62, 14
Abbeville, illuminated ceremonials at,
6,9
beautiful skies at, 9, 19
author's accounts at, 72, 13
Abbey of St. Radagune, 27, 3
Abbotsford, fit for Sir Walter Scott, 47,
14
Ability (for labour), indefiniteness of term,
3, 5
Abingdon, entrance to, 6, 8, 10
church of, 4, 7
scene in street of, 6, 7
various circumstances relating to its
gaol and union, 67, 23
Abraham, history of, begun, 61, II
his faith and prophetic vision, 65, 6
his mountain home like Horace's, 65, 14
Absence of mind, the author's, at Verona,
74, 18
Absenteeism, 9, 16: 10, 15, 16
Abstract of the first seven letters of this
book, 43, 2
Accent, struggle between the author and
his mother regarding correct, 33, 13
Achilles, horses of, their prophetic grief,
9, 11
Acland, Dr. Henry, his aid to the author
in arrangement of the Oxford draw-
ing-school, 61, 3
Acland, Sir T. Dyke, trustee of St.
George's Fund, 9, 16
Acland, Theodore, Mr., letter on practical
chemistry, 66, 21
Acre, Shakespearian use of the word, 23,
Eacus, lord of distributive justice, 23, 17
(And see "Minos")
Ægina, island of, 23, 16
Affection, how we adulterate the best, 14,
II (see "Love"); in simple and gentle
loves, 55, 5
Agassiz, Professor, his labours on glacier
movement, 34, 15
Age, discipline of, shown in the Heart of
Midlothian, 92, 7; Bassano fashion of
reckoning, 96, 4
Aggregates, Lady Juliana Berners' list of,
66, 13
Agincourt, battle of, how few were killed
at, 4, 11; loss of ship so called,
9, 10
Agnes, shepherd-farmer's daughter, 50, 4
coloured print for, 50, 14
Agnes, her cottage, lesson learnt by author
in, 94, 8
her education, 50, 10; under St.
George's rule, 50, 13: 52, 17; verses
she would learn under it, 50, 13
to construct a bees' nest with paper
and scissors, 52, 17
her library, 50, 4: 51, 8
Agricultural, population of England, her
only power, 44, 9; labourer, present
privileges of the, 28, 19
Agriculture, book on, 45, 20 n.
Lord Derby's style of it, 10, 1: 45,
14; a contrary manner in the Val di
Nievole, 18, 3
results of mechanical, in America, 17, 8
success of the author's experiment in,
48, 2
the only final source of wealth, 16, 10
to be the life's business of the Company
of Monte Rosa,1 17, 6
Air, as an element of life, 9, 18
the first article of material property,
5, 14
spirits of, their bitter lawgiving, 66, 4
vitiation of, by war, 5, 15
Ajalon, the long day above, 65, 13
Alexander, Francesca, account of Le Rose,
96, 3
account of Maria Zanchetta and her
orphans, 96, 4
her mother's system of education, 95, 23
Alexander III., Pope, at Venice, 70, 10
Alexandra Park, the author's reason for
not subscribing to, 22, 24
Alfred, King, 15, 6
Alice, in Miss Yonge's Dictionary of
Christian Names, 45, 18 n.
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debts and, 56, 21
is not work, 46, 8
Miss Yonge on, 53, 5
Alms-people, their houses at Abingdon,
4,7; of the St. George's Company,
19, 4
1 [It will be noticed that in the Index
Ruskin now and again refers to the Guild of
St. George (as it was ultimately called) as the
Company of Monte Rosa.]
Alpine flowers, not to be killed, 38, 18
Alps, ice of the, has lost one-third of its
depth in the last twenty years, 34, 11
Amaryllis, St. George much interested
in, 25, 23
Amazement, the author's, at modern care-
lessness in faith, 66, 2, 3
Amazons, ancient and modern, 66, 12
America, her carelessness about dying
England, a sign of her own ruin,
42, 4; what she has learned from
England, ib.
civil war in, and its results, 14, 5
discovery of a second, not wholly de-
sirable, 69, 3
Republican villages in, 1, 6
Republican woman of, describes a child,
42, 4
want of castles in, 10, 7
American girls, manners of, 20, 17
magicians, with new oil in their lamps,
12, 23
skill, essentially of degradation, 12, 26
Amery, of Pavia, the false Lombard, 25, 16
Amiens, Peace of, 25, 9
Amorites, general account of, 65, 11
iniquity of, ib.
the Mount of, 65, 8
observations of, on studies in sculpture
under St. George, 69, 23
princes faithful and generous, 65, 11
Amusement; of factory managers soon
likely to end, 35, 12
how provided for, in ancient Venice, 71,
4,5
Amusia," definition of, 83, 5; meaning
of, in relation to the English amuse-
ment, 83, 5
Anagallis tenella, growth of, 85, 4
Ancestors of modern political economists,
45, II
Anderson, Mr. J. Reddie, translation of
legend of St. Ursula by, 71, 13
Andrew, St., cross of, adopted by the
Scotch as the national device, 25, 11;
vision of, ib.
Angel," old English coin, 86, 8
Angeles, Los, California, legal executive
administration in, 13, 16
Angelico, Cimabue, and Giotto, wor-
shippers of an invisible truth, 76, 7
difficulty of conceiving, 12, 6
evil, of the air, 66, 4
first thought of squire to shoot them,
45, 11
guardian, 71, 14
princess's vision of, 20, 16
Angels, meaning of, in Greek thought,
82, 10
modern disbelief in, 75, 1: 84, 16
of England, 85, 2
of the Seven Churches, its meaning,
84, 16
rank of, among ancient spiritual powers,
82, 19 and n.
Anger, relation of, to Love and Justice,
23, 22
ought to be caused in rogues by just
blame, 81, 12 and n.; comp. Plato,
Laws, viii. 467, 6
Animal life, 27, 6; food, 58, 17
Animals, useful, of the world, not "practi-
cally infinite," though the Pall Mall
Gazette says so, 73, 4
divine life in, 75, 11
happiness of those which need not write,
69, 13
Anne, the author's nurse, 28, 15: 51, 4
her good packing, 56, 9
her skill in turning pancakes, 53, I
Anthony, St., knows desert flowers, 26,
14; of Padua, 19, 10 and n.
"Anthrax," 62, 11
Antiphony, complication of, in Greek
music, 83, 2
Anti-slavery, doctrines all hypocritical,
Apennines, scenery of, in Tuscany, 18, 8
Apes, 60, 5
Aphorisms, the sixteen ruling, of St.
George's Guild, 67, 16 seq.
Apollo, the disciplined choir in worship
of, as designed by Plato, 82, 19;
contest with Marsyas, 83, 14
Apotheosis, modern notion of, 41, 5
Applegarth, Mr., quoted by the Pall Mall
Gazette, 33, 1; his views, 34, 18
Apple-trees to be planted on St. George's
land, 85, 9
April, meaning of month's name, 4, 1
Arabian Nights' Entertainments referred
to, 71, 7
Princess Parizade, 87, 15 and n.
quoted on Enees-el-Jelees, 91, 5
Aratra Pentelici, references to, 78, 5
Araunah, the kingly Jebusite, 65, 11
Arc, Joan of, 4, 7: 14, 1
Arcadia, a modern, described, 35, 12:
: 38, 18
Architecture, of modern Rome, 21, 9
Gothic, not essentially productive of
poetry or learning, 16, 12
of houses, beautiful when honest, 21, 13
of towns under old communist prin-
ciples, 7, 8
sepulchral, 16, I
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