1. Fors Clavigera contains not a plan or scheme, but a prin-
ciple and tendency. 2. The author does not seek to found a
model colony. 3. Any English gentleman who accepts the prin-
ciple can do what the author proposes. 4. Education, true and
false. 5. Why the author has not told clergymen what to do.
6. The recklessness or conceit that sends young men into the
Church. 7. The evil done by clergymen who deceive themselves.
8. Neglect of the office of Prophet. 9. False assumption of the
office of Priest. 10. Neglect of the charge, "Be to the flock of
Christ a shepherd, not a wolf." 11. Challenge to the Bishops of
Peterborough and Manchester; 12, and to the Bishop of Oxford,
in regard to the inhibition of Bishop Colenso. 13. A corre-
spondent's challenge to the author. Why he has no home.
14. Why he goes to Italy, and painfulness of it. 15. Why he
uses railways. The use, and abuse, of machinery. 16. What the
author requires from members of the St. George's Company.

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-17. The letter replied to in §§ 13-16.
18. Address to the Bishop of Oxford on the inhibition of Bishop Colenso.
19. Newspaper article describing outrages by Lancashire pitmen. 20.
Responsibility of the Bishops. 21. Subscriptions to St. George's Fund.

AGNES' BOOK.

LETTER 50 (February)

1. Desultoriness of Fors Clavigera. 2. The principle in educa-
tion: "We live by admiration, hope, and love." 3. Children
should never read what is not worth reading, or see what is not
worth seeing. 4, 5. The author's visit to a shepherd's cottage
and examination of its library. Agnes' Book: The Children's Prize.
6, 7, 8. Inappropriateness of such literature for the young a
story and a carol. 9. Bad rhythm of the carol; superiority of
"Dame Wiggins of Lee." 10. Agnes and her healthy life.
11. Letter from a correspondent on the corruptions of factory
and colliery life. 12. Such, the result of "National Prosperity,"
"Freedom," and "Science." The St. George's Company as a raft

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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.

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Bingley (subject resumed from Letter 51, § 19). 17-19. How
the subject should be studied and illustrated. 20-22. Zoological
ethics: the sphex as type of the modern carnivorous economist.

"

NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-23. Further letter from the Rev. E. Z.
Lyttel (see Letter 51, § 20). 24. Letter on the Life of Felix Neff,
"Pastor of the High Alps.' 25. A "pathetic example of religious
madness." 26. Application to the author for a hospital vote. 27. The
sale of old clothes by ladies. 28. Country gossip on bees and birds,
and cock-fighting in old days in the Lake country. 29. Protest from

a bookseller against the author's refusal of discount.

THESE BE YOUR GODS

its own.

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1-3. Author's autobiography continued from Letter 52, § 5.
His Bible readings with his mother. Modern renderings of Bible
precepts the prayer of the monied man, contrasted with the
119th Psalm. 4. The teaching of God intentionally deceptive to
those who receive it with any warp of mind. 5. "Thou shalt
love the Lord with all thy strength and soul." Yea, says the
false disciple, but not with all my money. 6. Holbein's sermon
against wealth: the Miser's ear deafened with a murmuring of
7. The modern mind, with the Mammon bellows in

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

Century. Passage from the Wisdom of Solomon.

13.

NOTES AND

CORRESPONDENCE.-18. Further letter from the Rev.

E. Z. Lvttel. 19. Letter from Mr. Peter Bayne in defence of usury.
20. Further letter from him on reading the proofs of the present number
of Fors. 21. Pamphlet in praise of the Crystal Palace. 22. Article in a
foreign periodical ("A propos d'une paire de gants") on the import-
ance of simplifying wants. 23. Letter on the spoiling of the country.
24. A letter on bees. 25. Extracts from sixteenth and seventeenth cen-
tury sermons against usury. 26. Note upon a letter from "a poor
mother" on occupation for boys.

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
a false gospel for hire," restated and defined.
2. Their respon-
sibility for the state of the nation. 3. Their shrinking from
plain preaching. The author's attitude to the clergy. 4. The
Story of Hansli continued from Letter 39, § 9. 5. Questions
suggested by the story: (i.) the relative dignities and felicities
in simple, and gentle, loves; (ii) and (iii.) is the separation
between simple and gentle desirable? (iv.) and the separation
between town and country-between the manufacturing districts
and the woods of Muri or Sidney's Penshurst? 6. Cause of the
extremities of human degradation. How the clergy might arrest
it, by dining with the poor and preaching to the rich, instead
of preaching to the poor and dining with the rich.

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,

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