APPENDIX 633

SCHEME FOR “PRÆTERITA,” VOL. III., AND

“DILECTA,” VOL. III.

Among the MSS. is a sheet in Ruskin’s hand, another in that of a secretary, and four proofs with MS. notes and corrections, all relating to the scheme and titles of chapters intended to complete the third volume of Præterita, and also a third volume of Dilecta, as the proofs are headed “Præterita, Vol. III.” and “Dilecta, Vol. III.,” although, in fact, only two of the three published chapters of Dilecta had then appeared.¹ From these papers we can see both the plan ultimately arrived at, and the way in which it was reached, as well as some hints as to the meanings of the titles, and subjects of the chapters.

“PRÆTERITA,” VOL. III.

i. The Grande Chartreuse.

ii. Mont Velan. Other titles proposed were “Monte Viso,” “The Great St. Bernard” (and “Vevay”), and, different in subject, “The Garden of the Hesperides,” “Oranges and Lemons”; and again “Dash, Thistle, and Wisie,” afterwards placed as Dilecta, III. ii.

iii. L’Esterelle. Other titles proposed were “The Nereids’ Guard,” “The Fight with the Dragon,” and (perhaps as motto) “A damsel came to listen called Rhoda.” At one time “Königstein” was to be united with this chapter as “L’Esterelle and Königstein.”

iv. Joanna’s Care. Other titles, corresponding to one of the alternatives for chap. iii., were “The Dog-Dragon” or “The Dragon Changed,” and, different in subject, “The Salève” or “The Salève and Lucerne,” and “The Lost Sunsets” or “The Sunsets that Nobody Saw” (with note “Lady Trevelyan”). This last chapter was at one time placed as vi. or vii. Other subjects were “Boulogne Sands,” and “Dash, Thistle, and Wisie,” or “Königstein.”

v. The Source of the Arveron. Other titles, “The Treasures of Sheba,” or “The Treasures of Solomon.”

vi. Königstein. Noted as “Happy Swiss and Chamouni life with father and mother-Both their characters.” This chapter would have taken the place of one on “Chamouni” placed in one list as No. xi. Under another plan chapter vi. was to be entitled “The Wisdom (or Laws, or Proverbs) of the Son of Sirach,”² and deal with Winnington and with Political Economy.

vii. The Rainbows of Giessbach. Called in one list “Marie of the Giessbach.” See also above s. Chap. iv. for another subject proposed.

¹ [Thus some material for Dilecta, iii., Golden Water, is headed “Dilecta, xxv.”]

² [See below, p. 641.]

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