Hortus Inclusus

25

"Proserpina,"

26

Part 5.

27

One of our younger servants had gone on to the frozen lake; the ice gave way, and she was drowned.—S. B.

28

"Fiction Fair and Foul," No. 3.

29

Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Turner, and John Ruskin.

30

"Fors," vol. viii., Letter 5.

31

The motto on Mr. Ruskin's seal. See "Præterita", vol. ii.,

32

Photograph of Carpaccio's.

33

For a present to Dr. Kendall.

34

I learnt the whole of it by heart, and could then say it without a break. I have always loved it, and in return it has helped me through many a long and sleepless night.—S. B.

35

Pages 101 et seqq.

36

Florence, Alice, and May Bennett. Florence is gone. Alice and May still sometimes at Coniston, D.G. (March 1887).—J. R.

37

The first attack on Mr. Gladstone is in "Fors," September, 1875, the apology and withdrawal in "Fors," February, 1878. The second "naughtiness" will be found in "Arrows of the Chace," Vol. II., and a final attack is made in an interview in the Pall Mall Gazette, 21st April, 1884. The subject is summarized in an article in the Daily News of 4th July, 1898.

38

J. R.

39

"And many squireles, that settFul high upon the trees and eteAnd in his maner made festys.""The Dethe of Blaunche," 430.

40

Pinkerton on "Petralogy."

41

In a speech delivered at the Mansion House, February 19, 1870, in support of the extension of university teaching. See Cook's "Studies in Ruskin," p. 45.

42

"Proserpina,"

43

Dante, "Inferno", v. 144.

44

Shakespeare.

45

Our Herne Hill parlor-maid for four years. One of quite the brightest and handsomest types of English beauty I ever saw, either in life, or fancied in painting.—J. R.

46

Blake.

47

"Frondes" money.

48

See "Fors Clavigera," Letter XLV., and "Sesame and Lilies."

49

See "Queen of the Air,"

50

See "Fors Clavigera," Letter XXX.