lxxxvi INTRODUCTION

With regard to the manuscripts of the various pieces collected in this volume, that of the Lectures on Architecture and Painting has been already described above (p. xxxvi.). In the case of the Reviews of Lord Lindsay and Eastlake, of the article on Prout, and of the Letters to the Times on The Pre-Raphaelite Artists, no manuscripts or notes have been found among Ruskin’s papers. They are printed here as they originally appeared. The manuscript of the pamphlet on Pre-Raphaelitism has been mentioned above (p. lvii.). A manuscript draft of the first part (down to the end of § 6) of the first letter to the Times on the National Gallery is in the second MS. volume containing The Poetry of Architecture (see Vol. I. p. 2); a draft of portions of the second letter is on the back of some of the sheets of the MS. of The Stones of Venice, volumes ii. and iii. It shows once more the care and trouble which Ruskin took even with his occasional work. The letters are here reprinted as they appeared in the Times. Bibliographical particulars are given below, p. 396. The manuscript of the pamphlet on The Opening of the Crystal Palace has also been mentioned above (p. lxiv.). The Letters on Painted Glass and Notes on the Louvre are printed from the original letters and diaries respectively; the former were kindly placed at the disposal of the editors by the late Mr. Oldfield. No manuscript of the pamphlet on The Construction of Sheepfolds has been found among Ruskin’s papers; that of the hitherto unpublished Essay on Baptism has been already described (p. lxxvi.); an earlier draft of a small portion of it was among Ruskin’s miscellaneous manuscripts. The Letters, in connexion with “Sheepfolds,” to Maurice and Furnivall, and the Letters on Politics intended for the Times, are printed from the originals.

With regard to the text, the reader is referred for particulars to the Bibliographical Note which follows the title of each piece in this volume.

The illustrations consist of all those which appeared in Lectures on Architecture and Painting (the only piece in the volume published with illustrations by the author), together with several others now introduced.

The frontispiece is the portrait of Ruskin by Millais, which has been fully described above (pp. xxiii.-xxv.); Plate I., Ruskin’s own drawing of the rocks at the same place, has also been mentioned already (p. xxvi.). The drawing is in the Ruskin Drawing School at Oxford (Reference Series, No. 89). It was exhibited at the Fine Art Society’s Rooms in 1878, and is described under the title of “Gneiss, with its weeds, above

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