Hortus Inclusus

20

St. Theodore had a contest with a Dragon, and his horse gave considerable help, trampling it down with its four feet. The Saint spoke first to the horse as to a man—"Oh thou horse of Christ comfort thee, be strong like a man, and come that we may conquer the contrary enemy." See "Fors," vol. vii. also "St. Mark's Rest,"

21

A pleasant story that a friend sent me from France. The mouse often came into their sitting-room and actually sang to them, the notes being a little like a canary's.—S. B.

22

An Oxford Lecture. Nineteenth Century, January, 1878.

23

Decorative art of his plumage.—J. R.

24

"May I ask you to correct a false impression which any of your readers who still care to know my opinions would receive from the reference to Dickens in your kind notice of my letters to Miss Beever....I have not the letters here, and forget what I said about my Pickwick's not amusing me when I was ill, but it always does, to this hour, when I am well; though I have known it by heart, pretty nearly all, since it came out; and I love Dickens with every bit of my heart, and sympathize in everything he thought or tried to do, except in his effort to make more money by readings which killed him." Letter to "Daily Telegraph," Sandgate, January 4, 1888.

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.