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]


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