A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)

"Asphodel meadows of our youth," 26.

Athletic games and education, 128.

Austrians, in Italy, 78.

Author, his idea of a knight, when a child, 106.

"  " teaching young lady to copy old MS., 180.

life of:

at Brantwood, April 29, 1880.

" Manchester, July 10 and 13, 1857, 1, 61.

" Metaphysical Society, 1875, 175.

" Oxford, art teaching, pref. ix.

" Working Men's College, 156.

" Venice, 141 n.

" teaching of:

misunderstood, 180.

political economy, has read no modern books on, 1857 pref.

political influence of art, 1880 pref.

true wealth honoured by, 1.

words fail him to express modern folly, 49.

" books of, quoted, &c.:

"  A Joy for Ever" contains germs of subsequent work, 1880 pref.

"  revision for press, 1857 pref.

" title, 1880 pref.

on his own writings, 140.

they cost him pain, and he does not expect then to give pleasure, 1880 pref.

Barataria, the island of ("Don Quixote "), 65.

Beauty in art, on what based, vi.

Bible, The, to be realised as (not only called) God's Word 185.

Quoted, or referred to.

Job iii. 3, "Let the day perish wherein I was born … a child conceived, 119.

" xxxi. 40, "Let thistles grow instead of wheat," &c., 101.

Ps. xxxii. 8, "I will guide thee with mine eye," 18.

" xxxii. 9, "Be ye not as the horse or mule," 18.

" c. 4, "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving," 1880 pref.

Prov. i. 20, "Wisdom uttereth her voice in the streets," 112 n.

" iii. 15, "Wisdom more precious than rubies," 174.

" iii. 16, "Length of days are in her right hand," &c., 130.

" iii. 17, "Her ways pleasantness and her paths peace," 120.

" xiii. 23, "Much food is in the tillage of the poor," 7 n.

" xxxi. 15, "She riseth while it is yet night," 9, 58.

" xxxi. 25, "Strength and honour are in her clothing," &c., 60.

Hab. ii., its practical lessons, 112 n.

" ii. 6, "Woe to him … that ladeth himself with thick clay," 112 n.

" ii. 12, "Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood," 112 n.

" ii. 13, "The people weary themselves for vanity," 112 n.

Zach. vii. 9, 10, "Execute true judgment … and let none imagine evil," &c., 112 n.

Matt. vii. 16, "Gather figs of thistles," 133.

Luke xix. 26, "To him that hath shall be given," 181.

" xix. 27, "Those mine enemies bring hither and slay them before me, 183.

2 Thess. iii. 10, "If any work not, neither shall he eat," 145.

Books, not to be too cheap, and why, 65.

" numbers of, nowadays, and the result, 140.

Botany, what to learn in, 128.

Bridle of man, the Eye of God, 18.

Brotherhood—"All men are brothers," what it implies, 14.

" politically and divinely, 121.

Browning, E. B., on Italy, 78 n.

Buildings, public, their decoration, 104.

Capitalist, the, his command over men, 4.

Carlyle, T., on the value of horses and men, 18.

" "keen words" of, quoted, 184.

Casa Guidi, windows of the, referred to, 36 n.

Charity, crowning kingship (Siena fresco), 59.

" in preserving health, not in protracting disease, 184.

" is guidance, 127.

" not a geographical virtue, 81.

" true, defined, 118.

Charon, 3.

Chartres, 86.

Cheapness not to be considered in producing art, 37.

" of good art, undesirable and why, 62 seq.

Cheating disgraceful, but being cheated is not, 89.

Church-going and life, 14.

" restoration, mania for, 86-7.

Clarke, Dr. Adam, at the Metaphysical Society, 176.

Cleobis and Bito, death of, 109.

" story of, beautiful, 183.

Clergymen, to preach practically—e.g., on trade, 112 n.

Cleverness, best shown in sympathy with the aims of others, 170.

Clough, Arthur, quoted, 185 n.

Cocoa-nut, simile from a, as to the cheapness of good art, 64.

Colour, good, to be lasting, 44.

" local, as an element of chiaroscuro, 162.

Commerce, cowardice and, 177.

" frauds of, 151-2.

" modern, 1857 pref. xi.

Competition, a bad thing in education, 135.

Conservatism, true, 58.

Country, serving one's, with plough, pen, and sword, 129.

Cricket, the game of, 128.

Criticism, mistaken blame worse than mistaken praise, 24.

"  public, its effect on artists, 24.

Currency, national, its nature, 149.

Dante—Inferno, the purse round the neck as a sign of condemnation, 4.

"  "  Lasciate ogni speranza, 93.

Deane, Sir T., on the Oxford Museum, 32.

Death, as a reward, 183.

Design, dependent on proportion, 160.

"  study of, 159.

"  subjects of, 172-3.

Development, the direction of human, 175.

Dialogue on "paternal government," 121.

Diamond-cutting, waste of time, 34.

Dictionary of classical antiquities, woodcuts in, 107.

"Diletto" and art, 155.

Diogenes, respected, 2-3.

Discipline the basis of progress, 16.

Discovery of men of genius, 20.

Disobedience destroys power of understanding, 1857 pref. x.

Drawing as a means of description, 153.

"  lessons, 156.

"  to be learnt, as reading or writing, 153, 158.

"  to scale, to be learnt, 160.

Dress, art of, 47.

" beautiful, essential to great art—e.g., its portraiture, 54.

"  "  characteristics of, 54.

"  "  a means of education, 54.

"  best, not the costliest, 54.

" employment of labour—e.g., ball-dresses, 50.

" fashion in, wasted power of design, 45.

" fine, the spoils of death, 53.

"  " as a subject of expenditure, 146.

"  " under what circumstance, right and wrong, 52.

" lace, its value, 171.

Dürer's engravings, art-models, 169.

"      "  permanency of, 42.

"      "  crest with cock, as art-model, 164.

"  woodcuts, 40.

Economy, its true meaning (application: accumulation: distribution), 8 seq.

"  the art of managing labour, 7, 8.

"  the balance of splendour and utility, 10.

"  does not mean saving money, 8.

"  simile of farm life, 11.

" the laws of, same for nation and individual, 12 seq.

See s. Almsgiving, Author, Capitalist, Charity, Cheating,

Commerce, Currency, Education, Employment,

England, Farm, Gentlemen, Gold, Labour, Land,

Luxury, Money, National works, Panics, Parish relief,

Pension, Political Economy, Poor, Poverty, Property,

Trade, Wealth.

Education, best claimed by offering obedience, 16.

"  drawing to be part of, 156.

"  dress as a means of, 54.

"  eye, the best medium of, 106.

"  formative, not reformative only, 15.

"  in Art, author's paper on, 153 seq.

"  liberty to be controlled by, 128.

"  manual trade to be learnt by all youths, 128.

"  modern, 135.

"    "  in England, its bad tendency, 177.

"  schools of, to be beautiful, 104-5.

"  refinement of habits, a part of, 104.

"  waste of, on dead languages, 128.

"  young men, their, 134.

Edward I., progress since the days of, 1857 pref.

Emotion, quickness of, is not capacity for it, 132.

Employment, may be claimed by the obedient, 16.

England, art-treasures in, their number, 5.

"  modern, its ugliness, 176.

"  the rich men of, their duty, 118-9.

English character, impulse and prudence of, 17.

"  "  self-dependence, 130.

Envy, vile, 177.

Europe, no great art, except in, 87.

Examinations, their educational aim and value, 136.

Eye, the, nobler than the ear, and a better means of education, 106.

Faith, frescoes of, Ambrozio Lorenzetti, Siena, 57.

"  kinds of, 57.

Famine, how it comes, 133.

Fancy, as essential to fine manufacture, 172.

Farm, metaphor of a, applied to national economy, 11.

Fashion, change of, as wasting power of design, 45.

Florence, art and dress of, 54.

"  drawing at, 1400-1500, art-models, 169.

Fools, the wise to take of the, 118.

France, art in, great, and beautiful dress, 54.

"  English prejudice against, 81.

"  social philosophy in, "fraternité" a true principle, 14.

Francia, a goldsmith, 46.

Frescoes, whitewashing of Italian, 85.

Fraternity implies paternity, 14 (cp. Time and Tide, 177).

Funeral, English love of a "decent," 70.

Gainsborough, his want of gentle training, 28.

"  learns from Italian art, 82.

Genius, men of, and art, four questions as to (production, employment, accumulation, distribution), 19.

"      "  their early struggles, due to their starting on wrong work, 23.

Gentlemen, tradesmen to be accounted, 114.

Ghiberti's gates, M. Angelo on, 46.

"  a goldsmith, 46.

Ghirlandajo, a goldsmith, 46.

"  M. Angelo's master, 46.

Giotto's frescoes, Assisi, perishing for want of care, 86.

"  discovered by Cimabue, 133.

Glass, cut, waste of labour on, 34.

" painted, French 1200-1300, the best, 169.

God always sends men for the work, but we crush them, 133.

" His work, its fulfilment by men, 122.

Gold, its uses, as a medium of exchange, 150.

"  " incorruptible and to be used for lasting things, 46.

"  " not therefore to be used for coinage, 46.

Goldsmiths, artists who have been, 46.

" educational training for artists, 46 n.

" work of, 45 seq.

Government, enforcement of divine law, 121.

" in details, 122 seq.

" paternal, 14.

"  "  "in loco parentis," 16 n.

"  " defined, 121.

" principles of, at the root of economy, 11

"  " Faith, Hope, Charity, 57.

" to be conservative, but expectant, 58.

" to form, not only reform, 15.

"  to give work to all who want it, 129.

Great men and the public, 137

" the work they are sent to do, 133

Greatness, the humility of, 137.

Greece, development of physical beauty, 176.

Guilds of trade, decoration of their buildings, 116 seq.

Hesiod's "Eris", 176.

Historians, mistaken way of pointing out how great men are fitted for their work, 133.

Historical painting as a means of education, 106-7.

History, the study of mediæval, as well as ancient, insisted on, 109.

Horace, "justus, et propositi tenax," 182.

"  "prava jubentium," ib.

Horse and man, bridling of, 18.

Hospitals, decoration of, 114.

Housewife, her seriousness and her smile, 10.

Housewifery, perfect, 10.

Humility of greatness, 137.

" the companion of joy and usefulness, 168.

Illustrations, modern, bad art of, 40.

Independence, dishonest efforts after, 131.

Indian shawls, design of, 173.

Industry, its duty to the past and future, 72.

Infidelity, modern, 177.

Invention, national, of new wants, 138.

Inventors, to be publicly rewarded, but to have no patents, 113.

Island, desert, analogy of a, and political economy, 110.

Italy, Austrians in, 78.

" cradle of art, 82.

" destruction of art in modern, 84.

" modern art of, 85.

" state of, 1857, 84.

" thunderclouds in, "the winepress of God's wrath," 77.

Italian character, 84.

Jewels, cutting of, 52.

" modern, bad and costly, 159.

" property in, 146.

Jews, Christian dislike of, 81.

Keats, quoted, "a joy for ever," 1880 pref. ix-x.

King, the virtues of a (Siena fresco), 60.

Kingship, crowned by charity (Siena fresco), 59.

" modern contempt for, 177.

Labour, a claim to property, 145.

" constant, not intermittent, needed, 11.

" end of, is happiness, not money, 174.

"  "  to bring the whole country under cultivation,  12.

" management of, is economy, 7.

" organisation of, no "out of work" cry, 11-12.

"  " under government, planned, 127-31.

" sufficiency of a man's labour for all his needs, 7.

"  "  " nation's  "  its  "  7.

Labour, continued;—

" waste of, in various kinds of useless art, cut-glass, mosaic, &c., 34.

"  " dress, 50 seq.

Lace-making, 52.

"  machine and hand-made, 170.

" value of, in its labour, 171.

Laissez-aller, a ruinous principle, 16.

Land, the laws of cultivation, the same for a continent as for an acre, 12.

–owners, their duties, 143.

Law and liberty, 123.

" most irksome, when most necessary, 15.

" principles of, applied to minor things, 123.

" should regulate everything it can, 126.

" systems of, none perfect, 124.

" to be protective, not merely punitive, 15.

Legislation, paternal, dialogue on, 121.

Leonardo da Vinci, an engineer, 21.

"  "  " pupil of Verrocchio, 46.

"  "  "work by, at Florence, 164.

Leonidas' death, 109.

Lewis, John, his work, and its prices, 102 n.

Liberalism in government, true, 58.

Liberty, law and, 123.

" to be interfered with, for good of nation, 123-26.

Life, battles of early, for men of genius, 23.

" ideal of, simplicity plus imagination, 147.

Literature, cheap, modern, 65.

Lombard architecture at Pisa and Verona, 76.

London season, cost of, in dress, 55.

Look, people will not, at things, 141.

Lorenzetti, Ambrozio, his frescoes of "government" at Siena, 57.

Love and Kingship, see s. Charity.

Luxury, articles of, as "property," 146.

"  does not add to wealth, 48.

" the influences of, 138.

Macaulay's false saying, "the giants of one age, the pigmies of the next," 168.

Magnanimity, the virtue of, its full meaning, 60.

Mammon worship, in English commercial centres, 151.

Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition 1858, 5, 69.

"  " motto of, "A joy for ever," 1880 pref.

Mansfield Art Night Class, address to, 1873, 166 seq.

Manufacture, defined, 169.

Marathon, 109.

Marble, a better material for sculpture than granite, 34.

Marriage, desire for, in girls, 55.

Medici, Pietro de, orders M. Angelo's snow-statue, 36.

Menippus, 3.

Metaphysical Society, author, May 4, 1875, reads paper at, 175.

Michael Angelo, author's praise of, 36.

"  " Ghirlandajo's pupil, 46.

"  " on Ghiberti's gates, 46.

"  " snow-statue, 36.

Mill, J. S., on wealth, 145 n.

"  " on women, 180.

Misery, always the result of indolence or mistaken industry, 7.

Mistress, of a house, ideal, described, 9, 10.

Modernism, contempt for poverty and honour of wealth, 1 seq.

See s. Commerce, Education, England, Italy, Wealth.

Money, a document of title, 148.

" God's gift and not our own, and why, 116 seq.

" great work never done for, 98, 102.

" spending, is to employ labour, 48.

" the way we spend it, important, 48-9.

Morality, mechanical basis of, 176.

" not to be limited to a class, 182.

Moral sense, the, defined, 177.

Mosaic, Florentine, waste of labour, 34.

Motive, the only real, and rightness, 81.

Mourning, English love of, 70.

Museums, provincial, art-models for, 169.

National works, as a means of art employment, 24.

Nations in "brotherly concord and fatherly authority," 14.

" energy of, to be directed, 16.

" laws of, to be protective as well as punitive, 14.

Natural forms, as subjects of design, 172.

" History, the study of, to be extended, 155.

" Science, and drawing, 156.

New York, council of, on luxury, 138 n.

Nottingham lace, 170.

Novara, battle of, 77.

Obedience, to what we dislike, 1857 pref.

Obstinacy of great men against the public, 137-8.

Overwork, decried, 11.

Oxford Museum, Sir T. Deane on the, 32.

Painter, poverty of early years, 100.

" prices paid to a, 98.

Panics, commercial—e.g., 1857, 151.

Paper, necessity of good, for water-colour art, 43.

Parable, The Ten Talents, its practical application, 114-15.

Parents, noble delight of pleasing one's, possible only to the young, 27.

Paris, destruction of, 1870-1, 168.

Parish relief, no more infra dig. than State pensions, 129.

Patents, no, but private inventions to be publicly rewarded, 113.

Patriotism, what, 81.

Pensions, are Government alms, 129.

Peterborough, Bishop of, paper read at Metaphysical Society, 176, 183, 185.

Photography, as a means of providing art-models, 164.

" collections of Florentine Gallery photos, ib.

Pictures, copies of, to be made, but not to be bought, 90.

" dealers, and old pictures, 85.

" destruction of, 69.

" galleries, in all great cities, 91.

"  " their supervision and curators, 93.

" pictorial method of education, 106 seq.

" price of, 101, 38.

Pictures, price of, continued:—

"  " effect of high prices on artists and on art, 97 seq.

"  " by living artists, shows not value, but demand, 101.

"  " by dead and living masters, 103.

"  " modern prices, 38.

"  " of oil and water-colour, 102 n.

"  " to be limited but not too cheap, 66, 95-6.

" private possession of, its value, 93-4.

" purchase of, private buyers to buy the works of living artists, the public those of dead, 103, 94, 5.

"  " for ostentation, 101.

"  " the government to buy great works, 89.

" restoration of, notes of, to be kept for reference, 94 n.

"  " in Italy, 85.

" sale of a picture, its politico-economical effect, 132 n.

" studies for, tracings, and copies of, to be kept, 90 seq.

Pisa, architecture at, 76.

" Campo Santo, The, 82.

Plate, changes of fashion in, deplored, 45.

" gold and silver to be gradually accumulated, not melted down and remodelled, 46.

Ploughing, boys to learn, 128.

Political economists, their thrift, 89.

" Economy, modern books on, 1857 pref.

"  " the aim of true, 145.

"  " is citizen's economy, 1857 pref.

"  " definition and true meaning of, 132 n.

"  " first principles of, simple but misunderstood, 1857 pref.

"  " its questions to be dealt with one by one, 38.

"  " study of, to be accurate, if not deep, 1857 pref.

"  " secrecy in trade bad, 110 seq.

"  " See s. Economy.

Politics, English, 82.

" European, 1848, 1857, 80.

" See s. Conservatism, Liberalism.

Poor, the, their right to State education and support, 127.

Poor, the, continued;—

" are kept at the expense of the rich, 127 n.

" to be taken care of, 118.

Poverty, classical writers on, 2.

" mediæval view of, 4.

" modern contempt for, just and right, 1 seq.

Posterity, thought for, 72.

Praise, only the young can enjoy, for the old are above it, if they deserve it, 26.

Pride, as a motive of expenditure, 79.

Prize-giving, a bad thing in education, 135.

" its true value and meaning, 166.

Productive and unproductive transactions, 132 n.

Progress, modern, since Edward I., 1857 pref.

Property, division of, into things producing (a) life, (b) the objects of life, 144 seq.

" the right of, to be acknowledged, 142.

Providence, notion of a special, 133.

Public, the, favour of, 137.

" great men and, 137.

" impatient of what it cannot understand, 140-1.

Punishment, the rationale of human, 123.

Purse-pride, modern and ancient, 2.

Railway speed, 86.

Raphael's Disputation, 147.

Religion, national, its beauty, pref.

Rembrandt's "spotted shell" as a model in etching, 164.

Renaissance architecture at Verona, 76.

Restraint, the law of life, 16.

Reverence for art, a test of art power, 167.

Reynolds, Sir J., learns much from Italian art, 82.

" portraits of, models of art, 169.

Rich, the duty of the strong and, 118.

Riding, as part of education, 128.

Rowing, as part of education, 128.

St. Albans, Duke of, reads paper for author at Mansfield, 166 n.

St. Louis' chapel at Carcassonne, painting, 86.

Salvation, not to be limited to a class, 182.

School Board, the, 177.

Schools of art, bare schoolrooms do not fix the attention, 105.

"  " decoration of, reasons for, 104.

"  " proposals for, 132.

Science, controversy in, too much nowadays, 175.

" education in, 128.

" the bridal city of, 175.

Selection, Natural, and Social Policy, paper by author, 175.

Shakespeare's Cliff, 89.

Siena, frescoes of Antonio Lorenzetti, 57.

Smith, Adam, 1857 pref.

Soldiers of the ploughshare as well as of the sword, 15.

Speculation, commercial, 151.

Spider, web of a, 170.

Street, Mr., on the Ducal Palace, 141 n.

Students in art, not to aim at being great masters, 168.

Surfaces, drawing of round, &c., 161.

Sympathy, the cleverness of, 170.

Systems, not easily grasped, 128.

Taste, defined, 154.

" education of, 160.

Tennyson, In Mem. LV. "Of fifty seeds, she often brings but one to bear," 133 (cp. Time and Tide, 67).

Thought, not to take the place of fact, 141.

Time, man is the true destroyer, not, 74.

Times, The, Nov. 23, 1857, referred to, 138 n.

Tintoret's St. Sebastian (Venice), perishing, 86.

Titian, eternally right, 157.

" sketch by (Florence), 164.

" woodcuts of, 70.

Tombs, English waste of money on, 78.

Trade, art-faculty, its employment in design in, 30.

" freedom from rivalry, healthful, 110 seq.

" government direction of, 129.

" guilds, decoration of their buildings, 110 seq.

Trade, guilds, continued:—

"    " under public management, 114.

" secrecy of, bad, 110 seq.

" true co-operation in, what, 112.

" youths to learn some manual, 128.

Tradesmen, their modern social position wrong, 114.

Truth, dependent on justice and love, 152.

Turner, prices of his pictures, when a boy, 98.

" his want of gentle training, 28.

Ugliness, is evil, 177.

Usury, a "mortal sin," 185.

Utility, not to be the sole object of life, 10.

Vellum, for water-colour drawing, 43.

Venice, art of, aided by beautiful dress, 54.

" Ducal Palace, chronology of the capital, 141 n.

Verona, amphitheatre of, 76.

" battle-fields of, 77.

" greatest art-treasury in the world, 76 seq.

" typical of Gothic architecture, 76.

Veronese, P., eternally right, 157.

"  "Family of Darius," purchased by National Gallery, for £14,000, 55.

Verrocchio, a goldsmith, 46.

" master of Leonardo, 46.

Virtues, the, fresco of, by A. Lorenzetti, at Siena, 57.

" winged (Siena), ib. seq.

Wages, fixed rate of, advocated, 113, 129.

Wall-paper, 159.

Wants, the invention of new, 138.

War, destruction of works of art by, 75.

Water-colour drawings, perishable, and why, 42.

"  " to be on vellum, not paper, 43.

Wealth, author's respect for true, 1.

" duty and, 119-20.

" earned and inherited, 143.

Wealth, continued:—

" freedom of spending, to be allowed, 142.

" how gained, 117.

" means well-being, 147.

" mediæval view of, 4.

" modern honour paid to, 1, 2.

" power of, 4.

" principles of, 114 seq.

" works of art, how far they are, 132 n.

Wealthy, the, "pilots of the State," 119, 142.

"      " claims of the poor on, 143.

"      " way in which they should spend their money, 143.

Wisdom, preciousness of, 174.

Women, education of, drawing, 158-9.

" J. S. Mill on the position of, 180.

Woodcuts, cheap and nasty, 40.