1. Fors Clavigera contains not a plan or scheme, but a prin- NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-17. The letter replied to in §§ 13-16. AGNES' BOOK. LETTER 50 (February) 1. Desultoriness of Fors Clavigera. 2. The principle in educa- PAGE 235 254 amidst wreckage. 13. What little Agnes should be taught. Oldfashioned carols. 14. Coloured engravings of beautiful pictures. 15. Children's gardens and books about natural history. 16. (Castleton.) The author's impressions of Bradford and Wakefield. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-17. The law's delays. Newspaper article on defects of the laws of bankruptcy and conveyance. 18. Subscriptions to St. George's Fund. HUMBLE BEES LETTER 51 (March) 1. Autobiographical confessions. 2-7. Autobiography continued from Letter 46, § 6. 8. Author's desultoriness: the curse of Reuben and its compensation. Further notes on the education of "Agnes": choice of Holy Bibles. 9, 10. The kind of natural science that she is to be taught. What she is to learn, for instance, about Bees. 11. Bingley's Animal Biography on Bees. 12. A modern book on The Insect World and its horrors. Ormerod's History of Wasps and a further quotation from Bingley. 14. Questions about bees. 15. Meaning of the word "Humble," or "Bumble" bee. 16. Four species of bees. 17. The Mason Bee. 18. The Wood-piercing Bee. 19. The Woolgathering Bee.1 13. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-20. Letter from the Rev. E. Z. Lyttel in reply to Letter 49. The true and the false gospel. 21. Beautiful type of the English clergymau in Fielding's Joseph Andrews. 22, 23. Extracts from the Rev. W. Houghton's Seaside Walks and Country Walks: contrasted with Gould's British Birds. The instinct for the horrible in the English mind. 24. Illness of the Rev. Septimus Hansard in Bethnal Green. Self-sacrifice of clergymen in trying to help the misery of the poor; but neglect in preaching to the rich. 25. Letter on coarseness of village life (supplementing Letter 49, § 19). 26. A piece of biography in happier times. Reclamation of land by a tidemill. VALE OF LUNE LETTER 52 (April) 1-5. Author's autobiography continued from Letter 51, § 7. 6. (Bolton Bridge.) The Valley of the Lune at Kirkby. 7, 8. Modern adornments of it; iron railings and seats described. 9. The river shore used as a refuse heap. 10. A contrast at Clapham, near Kirkby: a dunghill by the river, and spick and span new school-house. 11. Fouling of the Wharfe at Bolton. 12. Old times and new: wading in the Tay, rubbish in the Lune. 13. Further reflections on the iron seats at Kirkby, supported by a devil's tail. Clumsiness of English decorative art. 14. The devil's tail in iron as the final outcome of Manufacture, Science, and Art. 15, 16. The Leaf-cutting Bee: extract from 1 For the fourth species, see Letter 52, § 15. PAGE 270 296 Bingley (subject resumed from Letter 51, § 19). 17-19. How " NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-23. Further letter from the Rev. E. Z. a bookseller against the author's refusal of discount. 1-3. Author's autobiography continued from Letter 52, § 5. its ear, deaf to the teaching of noble literature. Quotation from Goethe's Faust. 8. The true, and the false, reading of the Parable of the Unjust Steward. 9. The Psalter now practically dead. The Eighth Psalm: author's translation. 10. The author's notes on it. 11. Final purport of the Psalm. When men rule the earth rightly, and feel the power of their own souls over it, they recognize the power of higher spirits also. Contrary state of the modern mind. 12. Historical evidence that human happi- ness and power depend on the Psalmist's state of mind. With Psalm viii., Hebrews i. and ii. to be compared: author's exposition of those passages. The Divine element in Man, and the reality of the Divine Spirit, only to be learnt by obedience. 14, 15. Relation of man to the lower creatures : quotation from Pope. 16. Instinct the principal mental agent in great human work; in man's added spiritual life, he becomes only a little lower than the angels. 17. The Plague-wind of the Nineteenth CORRESPONDENCE.-18. Further letter from the Rev. E. Z. Lvttel. 19. Letter from Mr. Peter Bayne in defence of usury. 1, 2. The deceptions of individual judgment, "my own conscience," and "doing my best." The first thing needful is to find one's master and obey him. 3-11. The author's autobiography continued from Letter 53, § 3. 12. It is given in Fors as an example of the results of education on after life. 13-19. Autobiography continued: author's summing-up of the results of his education. 20. His over-indulgence as a child. 21. Lady Jane Grey as an example of severity in education. 22-24. Passages from Ascham's Scholemaster. 25. The platted thorn, the tribute of earth to the Princesses of Heaven. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-26. Letter from the Rev. Stewart D. Headlam upon the author's comments on the Rev. Septimus Hansard (Letter 51, 24). 27. Article from a Birmingham paper on his attacks upon the clergy. 28. Slow process of constituting St. George's Company on a legal basis. THE WOODS OF MURI LETTER 55 (July) 1. The author's charge against the clergy, that they "teach NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-7. Draft memorandum and statutes of the Company of St. George. 8. Author's notes thereon. 9. Letter describing the scene from Wakefield Bridge in old days. 10. Letter from "a poor mother" (see Letter 53, § 26), with the author's notes. His projected Grammar of Art for young people. TIME-HONOURED LANCASTER LETTER 56 (August) 1. Accusation against the author that he "dislikes lords, squires, and clergymen." 2. The author and a Capuchin friar, PAGE 342 363 383 |