Ruskin Relics

by W. G. Collingwood

Perhaps she hardly needed a Ruskin to tell her that: but she kept the letter, and did what it bade. Those who know anything about the Broadlands Conferences, those remarkable meetings of men and women in all ranks and of every shade of religious belief, come together "for the deepening of spiritual life," know what singular influence was wielded by Lady Mount Temple, and how far-reaching that influence has become.

Ruskin used sometimes to visit at Broadlands. One winter he spent several weeks there, and Lady Mount Temple says in the volume already quoted: "We found him, as always, most delightful and instructive company; his talk full and brilliant, and his kindness increasing to all the house, giving a halo to life. He set us all to manual work! He himself undertook to clean out the fountain in the garden, and made us all, from Juliet (Madame Deschamps, Lady Mount Temple's adopted daughter) to Mr. Russell Gurney, pick up the fallen wood and make it up into bundles of faggots for the poor!"

His friends also came to see him at Brantwood. Mrs. Arthur Severn has a lively story of an excursion with them to the Monk Coniston Tarn, a pretty bit of water on the hills, with a fine panorama of mountains all round, the show-place of Coniston. It was a foggy morning, but he hoped it would clear; and they drove up through the woods in expectation, but it was still foggy. They got out of the carriage and walked to the finest point of view; still the fog would not lift. Then Ruskin waved his hand and pointed to the scene they ought to see; and in his best eloquence, and with growing warmth described the lakelet embosomed in its woods and moors, Helvellyn and the Pikes, Bow Fell and Wetherlam, and the Coniston Old Man. For a moment it seemed as if the whole was before their eyes; and then they burst out laughing. "After all," said Lady Mount Temple, "is not this the best treat we could have?" "And to me," said Ruskin, with his old-fashioned courtliness, "what view could be so entirely delightful?"

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[INDEX]

Agates, Ruskin's theory of, [173]
Aix-les-Bains, [78]
Alessandri, A., [103]
Alexander, Mrs. and Miss Francesca, [102], [103], [146]
Animals, Ruskin's love of, [74]
Annecy, [74-78]
Apocrypha, [210]
Arnold, Sir Edwin, [32]
Art-study under Ruskin, [4], [7], [111], [205]
Atkinson, Mr., [136]
Autographs of Ruskin, [135], [145]
owned by him, [183], [189], [190]
Avallon, [48-51]
Barrow-in-Furness, Bishop of, [206]
Barrow, Mont., [24]
Bateman, the Misses, [156]
Baxter, Mr., [65], [93], [97]
Bell, William, J.P., [23], [24]
Beever, John, [23]
Miss Susanna, [70]
"Bible of Amiens," 49, [51], [131]
Bible-reading of Ruskin, [69], [70], [195], [202], [210], [225]
"Bibliotheca Pastorum," 8
Bibliomania under Queen Anne, [206]
Boating experiences of Ruskin, [16], [18], [26]
Boni, Signor G., [103]
Boyd, Rev. Mr., [196]
Brabazon, Mr., [131]
Brantwood gardens, [31], [32], [36], [43], [44]
harbour, [9], [17]
library, [182-190], [196-210]
moor, [10], [40]
woods, [32-39]
Brayshay, Mr. W. Hutton, [16]
Bronzino's Judith, [102]
Bunney, J. W., [50], [101], [129]
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, [156]
Calais, [47]
Casts from natural leaves, [136]
sculpture, [98]
Chair, Ruskin's, [3], [4]
Châlons, [48]
Champagnole, [52]
Chesneau, Ernest, [162]
Christy Minstrels, [156]
Churchill, Mrs. W. H., [17]
Rev. W. H., [175]
Cîteaux, [51]
Claribel, [156]
Cluses, [66]
Col de la Faucille, [59]
Colouring of Ruskin's drawings, [108], [122], [125], [126]
Coniston Hall, [21], [23], [24]
Coniston Ruskin Exhibitions, [131], [132]
Museum, [3], [10], [25], [131], [136], [174], [195], [198], [201]
Cook, Mr. E. T., [130]
Cooke, Mr. E., [136]
Cowper-Temple, Mr. and Mrs., [216-225]
Creswick, Prof. B., [159]
Crystallography, [77], [176]
Cunliffe, Mrs., [130]
Dalby, Charles, [26]
Deschamps, Madame, [226]
"Deucalion," 177
Diamonds, [174-176]
Digging, [9]
Dijon, [51]
Dog stories, [74]
Dôle, Mt., [59]
Drawings by Ruskin, [47], [49], [50], [82], [93], [102], [121-132]
Engineering, Ruskin's turn for, [43]
Exhibitions of Ruskin's drawings, [130-132]
Fielding, Copley, [122], [124]
Fiesole and Florence, [102]
Froude, J. A., [26]
Gale, Miss, [24]
Galena, story of Ruskin's, [173]
Gardens, [31], [32], [43], [44]
Geneva, [60], [81]
Geological Magazine, Ruskin's papers, [173]
Geology, Ruskin's interest in, [10], [50], [60], [66], [97], [111], [116]
Globe of the stars, [10]
Gold as it grows, [168]
Gorge of the Ain, [52]
Fier, [77]
Granite of central France, [50], [51]
Gregory, Dr. C. R., [198]
Guinigi of Lucca, [90], [93]
Gules and gul, [176]
Hakon's Bible, [206-209]
Hallé, Charles, [155]
Hand of Ruskin, [136]
Handwriting, development of Ruskin's, [138]-145
"Harbours of England," 16
Harding, J. D., [127], [190]
Herdson, Dawson, [116]
Hilliard, Laurence J., [15], [22], [26], [101], [177]
Miss C., [17]
Miss, [130]
Hinksey, [9]
History in graphic statistics, [118]
"Hortus Inclusus," 23, [70], [131]
Hullah, John, [156]
Hunt, Alfred W., [7]
Ilaria del Carretto, [89-93], [98]
"Iris of the Earth," 175
Isola, [215], [225]
Journals of Ruskin, [65], [123]
quoted, [50], [69], [70], [73], [74], [78], [82], [85], [86], [101], [102]
Jumping Jenny, [15], [23-26]
Jura Mts., [52-59]
Juvenile works of Ruskin, [138], [141]
Keswick, intended jewel-museum 170
Kirkcudbright, Ruskin's gift of minerals, [175]
Koren, Herr Kristian, [209]
Lake-district boats, [21]
Laon, [47], [48]
Lebrun, Madame Vigée, [62]
Les Rousses, [52], [55]
Liberty, Ruskin on, [52]
Limestone country, [51], [52]
"Love's Meinie," 10, [118]
Lucca, [86-101]
Macdonald, Miss, [162]
Manuscripts of Ruskin, [135]
owned by him, [189], [198-209]
Map-drawings by Ruskin, [108-118]
Maps used by him, [115], [116]
Maundrell, Mr., [49]
Mephistopheles coachman and dog Tom, [73], [74]
Minerals, Ruskin's interest in, [85], [167-178]
Model of Brantwood moor, [10]
Coniston fells, [116]
feathers, [10]
Jumping Jenny, [23], [25]
South-coast boats, [26]
"Modern Painters," 26, [66], [124], [126], [128], [129], [135], [144], [145]
Monk-Coniston tarns, [227]
Monnetier, [60]
Mont Blanc, [59], [69], [70]
Montréal, [50]
Moorland garden, [40-44]
Mornex, [60], [61]
Morris, William, [118], [189]
Mount Temple, Lord and Lady, [216-227]
"Munera Pulveris," 60
Murray, Mr. C. F., [103]
Music, compositions of Ruskin, [159-164]
lessons, [151-155]
preferences of Ruskin, [155], [156], [159]
Nant d'Arpenaz, [69], [70], [73]
Natural history, Ruskin's interest, [10] (And see [Geology], &c.)
Newman, Mr. H. R., [98], [102], [103]
Nicknames of Ruskin and his friends, [224], [225]
Norton, Prof. C. E., [69], [121], [128]
"Notes on the Turner Exhibition," 108

Oil-painting, Ruskin's attempts, [122]
Omar Khayyam, Ruskin on, [190]
"Our Fathers Have Told Us," 51, [118]
Oxford Drawing-school, [4], [7]
Palmerston, Lord, [216], [223]
Paris, [81]
Pedigree of Ruskin, contributions to, [16], [196], [197]
Pisa, [77], [86], [97], [103], [104]
Plague-wind, [56], [73], [74]
"Poems of John Ruskin," 123, [124], [127]
"Poetry of Architecture," 124, [129], [144]
"Præterita," 51, [55], [59], [70], [82]
Print-style writing, [137], [138]
Prout, Samuel, [123], [190]
Quercia, Jacopo della, [90]

Railways, Ruskin on, [66], [78]
Randal, Mr. F., [49], [103]
Reading aloud, [15]
"Redgauntlet," 15, [159]
Reims, [48]
Religion of Ruskin, [51], [69], [195], [202], [210], [226]
Reservoirs at Brantwood, [43]
Restoration of churches, [50]
Rhône at Geneva, [60]
Richmond, George, [3]
"Roadside Songs of Tuscany," 102
Roberts, David, [125]
Mr., [155]
Robson, Mr. E. R., [103]
Rooke, Mr. T. M., [103]
Rowing, Ruskin on, [18]
Royal Academy, Ruskin exhibit, [131]
Ruskin expelled, [132]
Runciman, Mr., [122]
"Ruskin et la Bible" (by H. J. Brunhes), [195]
Ruskin, J. J., [122], [141], [142], [183], [196-198]
Mrs. (John Ruskin's mother), [142], [144], [155], [187], [196], [198]
Sailor ancestors of Ruskin, [16]
St. Benedict, [66], [73], [81]
St. Bernard of Menthon, [81]
St. Bernard's birthplace, [51]
St. Cergues, [55-59]
St. George's Guild and work, [8], [49], [66], [73], [102], [103], [210], [223].
(And see [Sheffield Ruskin Museum])
St. Martin, Sallenches, [70]
Salève, [60]
Sallenches, [66-73]
Sea-studies of Ruskin, [16], [26]
Sens, [48]
Sermons reported by Ruskin, [198]
"Sesame and Lilies," 49
"Seven Lamps of Architecture," 51, [127], [129]
Severn, Mr. Arthur, [17], [131]
Mrs. Arthur, [17], [32], [49], [66], [146], [155], [156], [176], [210], [220], [223], [227]
Sheffield Ruskin Museum, [98], [101], [103], [175], [205]
Shorthand notes by Ruskin, [143]
Smoke-plague, [56], [74], [77]
Snail (sailboat), [26], [27]
"Stones of Venice," 124, [127], [128], [145]
"Storm-cloud of the Nineteenth Century," 55, [69]
"Studies in Both Arts," 124
Swiss statuette, [187]
Swiss towns, intended history, [128]
Taglioni and Ruskin, [142]
Talloires, [77-81]
To-day, Ruskin's motto, [77]
Tollemache, Miss, [215]
Translation, Ruskin's method, [8]
Troyes, [48]
Turin, [85]
Turner and the sea, [16]
Coteau scenery, [48]
Pass of Faido, [127]
Riviera subject, [85]
Sun of Venice, [132]
Ugolino's mountain, [97]
Vandyck's enjoyment in painting, [85]
"Verona and other Lectures," 51, [124]
Verses by Ruskin, [24], [164]
Vézelay, [50]
Viking ship, [26]
Viollet-le-Duc, [50], [183]
Wakefield, Miss, [151], [156]
Ward, Mr. W., [129]
Wedderburn, Mr. A., K.C., [8]
West, Mr. G. F., [152]
Whitelands College, [175]
Wine, Ruskin on, [61]
Writing from maps and sketches, [112], [115], [132]
Xenophon's "Economist," 8

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