CONTENTS OF VOL. THE CAVE OF MACHPELAH (1876) LETTER 61 (January) 1. Wintry Weather. The use of holes in a fire-shovel, and NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-17. Formal institution of St. George's PAGE 483 DOGS OF THE LORD LETTER 62 (February) 1. Misprints in last letter corrected. The author's gambolling in Fors, not purposeless. 2. Summary of his statements respecting the duties of Bishops. No use to frame the Ten Commandments in gold if the physical condition of the people is not examined. 3. First duty of Bishops, to register their flocks: Queen-Bishops with brooms for croziers. 4. The functions of Bishops; Dogs of the Lord; wholesome inquisition. 5. Men of truth, and devoid of covetousness, difficult to find in a Christian country. Impiety of riches wilfully possessed. 6. Adam Smith's gospel of Covetousness. 7. From which idolatry Companions of St. George are vowed to withdraw by signing submission to the Two Great Commandments. 8. Avarice, Frugality, and Covetousness defined. 9, 10. The nobleness of human nature. Covetousness unnatural. The sacredness of wife, and home, and servants. 11. The Word of God: how the phrase is misapplied. 12. Further analysis of Genesis, chap. x. 13. A passage from Dante, and a writing-lesson. 14. A shell spiral. 15. What "flourish" in writing means. 16. The spirals of the Helix, and the volutes of the Erechtheium. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-17. The Companions of St. George to have glass pockets, and the state of the Master's affairs to be public. 18. Criticism of the accounts of the Horticultural Society. 19. Accounts of St. George's Company. Appointment of Henry Swan as Curator of the Museum. Revised List of Companions and Subscribers. 20. Affairs of the Master. His battle with the booksellers. Statement of his expenditure January 1-20, 1876. 21. Letter on the "conceit of the modern scientific mob." 22. Further note on the name "Sheffield." 23. Further correspondence about Wakefield. Extreme difficulty of writing history. The chapel on the bridge rebuilt. Reply by E. L. to Mrs. Green's letter in Letter 59, § 15. 24. Evidence on the Wakefield Election Petition. 25. Letter on industrial conditions there. PAGE 511 SIT SPLENDOR LETTER 63 (March) 4. 1. St. George's Company, not a refuge for the distressed; the Companions are not to be ministered unto, but to minister. 2. Three ranks of Companions-Servant, Militant, and Consular (or Estimant). 3. "Works of darkness": their real nature. "Works of light": men vitally active to be living sunshine; hence St. George's legend, "Sit Splendor." 5. Companions of St. George to have, literally, no fellowship with works of darkness. 6. No presumption in the separation of good from bad persons. 7. The true confession of Christ. 8. Such separation a charity 538 to all unconscious rogues. 9. Young Companions required to be gentle and modest. Relations between parents and children. (Oxford.) 10. Letter from a girl friend with a ghost story. 11. Autobiography: the author's Aunt Jessie. 12, 13. The author's poor relations; he does not sneer at want of ancestry, though he loves Lords and Ladies. Thackeray's Book of Snobs. Peace gives knowledge; but not knowledge, peace. 14. The author's Cousin Jessie. 15, 16. Leviticus xxiii. 24 and Holbein's "blowing of trumpets, an un-Holy Convocation (introduction to the "Dance of Death"). 17. Letters on the shells of the Helix virgata. 18. French manual of conchology; and 19, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom searched in vain for information. 20, 21. Letter on snails' shells, NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-23. Accounts of St. George's Company, LETTER 64 (April) 1-3. Analysis of Genesis continued from Letter 62, § 12. 4. The bondage of Egypt: what it stands for. 5. Manual work re- quired of all of us. 6. Go and learn to make bricks or tiles. "The trivial round, the common task." 7. The habit of using pretty words without understanding them. 8. The "Grand Junc- tion Canal Brick and Tile Company": proprietors to sit serene at home while slaves make the tiles for them. 9. The trade of literature. Its Egyptian bondage. 10, 11. Three Egyptian Sarcophagi in the British Museum of about the year 500 B.C. Imperfection of the art; but excellence of the "scripture," only to be understood by practice. 12. The three ways of making marks-scratching, painting, writing. 13-15. Elementary exer- cises in the art of scratching (engraving). 16. A writing copy from a Lombardic MS. of about the eleventh century. 17, 18. The "Etruscan Leucothea," the second Lesson Photograph. 19 (note). Mr. Girdlestone's pamphlet on Luxury. 20. Specimens NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-21. Accounts of St. George's Fund. 22. Messrs. Tarrant and Mackrell's account for legal expenses. Accounts of the Master (February 20 to March 16), with notes. 24. Letter on Helix ericetorum (see Letter 62, § 14). 25. Bravery of a fisher- girl (newspaper extract). 26. Description of recent changes in the Isle of Wight and of the ironclad Thunderer by a Fellow of Corpus. 27. Letter from Mr. E. Rydings on an error in accounts and spinning in PAGE LETTER 65 (May) THE MOUNT OF THE AMORITES 1. Analysis of Genesis xv. 2, 3. "The Word of God": discussion of the phrase. 4. "Fear not, Abram, I am thy shield and thy exceeding great reward": the words translated into a modern equivalent. 5. The shield of sixteen-pounders. 6. Analysis continued. The primary verse of the entire Bible: "And he believed in the Lord, and He counted it to him for righteousness.' Abram's sacrifice. Its slaughter and that of modern warfare. 8. Abram's Doves and Ion's. 9. "An horror of great darkness fell upon Abram": modern scientific explanations of spiritual phenomena. 10. Are dreams prophetic? 11. "The iniquity of the Amorites." Highlanders, the modern Amorites. 12. Their character. 13. Map of Palestine to be placed in the St. George's Museum, in the Amorite country of Yorkshire. 14. Interpretation of Abram's vision of the Furnace and the Lamp. 15. The prophecy of Nahum, 16. Spirals of snail shells. 17-19. The author's Amorite Aunt Jessie (resumed from Letter 63, § 14): autobiographical reminiscences. 20. Directions for cutting an Egyptian asterisk (Letter 64, § 14). 21. The "Etruscan Leucothea," and the author's study of a Kingfisher. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-22. Affairs of St. George's Company. Two Companions set to work on St. George's land at Bewdley. Author's gift of agates to St. George's Museum. Subscription list. 23. Accounts of the Master (March 16 to April 16). 24, 25. Letter to Young Girls. 26. Letter from a girl-pupil on a town-child who "asked what the harvest was." 27. Mr. Rydings and St. George's Accounts. MIRACLE LETTER 66 (June) 1. Careful reading of the Pentateuch enforces the question of its credibility. 2. The author's paper on Miracle. His amazement at modern carelessness in faith. 3. Practical connexion between physical and spiritual light. Corruption of the whole framework of modern life by injustice. Powers of nature depressed or perverted, together with the spirit of man. 4. Prayer of St. John Damascene. 5. Sir Philip Sidney's version of Psalm lviii. concerning Justice. 6. Popular way of reading the Bible so that it shall be entirely intelligible and delightful; and a way of reading it so as to render it much otherwise. 7. Questions on Isaiah xvi. 8. The meaning of Rahab in Psalm lxxxix. 9-15. Letter to Frederic Harrison. Questions on Evolution, Usury, and the Religion of Humanity. 16. Writing-lesson: facsimile of the last words written by Nelson. 17. The Four Lesson Photographs PAGE 587 612 Lippi's Madonna, Etruscan Leucothea, Titian's Madonna, Velasquez's Infanta: their relation in the history of art. NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-18. Affairs of the Company. A subscription. 19. Reply from Mr. Tarrant to Letter 64, § 22, and the author's rejoinder. 20. Difficulties on St. George's land at Bewdley. 21. Letter from Mr. T. D. Acland on chemical examples for St. George's Museum. 22. Accounts of the Master. Cost of a Posting Tour. His old servants. 23. Letter from Coventry Patmore, with newspaper extracts on obliterating traces of the Virgin Mary," by iconoclasm at Bristol and a female boxing-match at New York. 24. Continuation of the Letter to Young Girls. 25. Letter on the Lead, at Perth. 26. Letter from the Rev. Osborne Gordon on Rahab. COMPANIONSHIP LETTER 67 (July) 1. The St. George's Company. Its object is the welfare of the British nation. 2. This, whether in health or in sickness, is certainly in debt. A National Store, as opposed to National Debt, a first object of the Company. 3. The nature of a National Debt, and the constitution of a "civilized nation." 4. The meaning and results of a National Store. 5. Misguidance of public opinion by the Press. 6. The laws of St. George's Company are none of them new, and are to be established by patience, not violence. 7. The Companions do not leave their existing positions in life. 8, 9. The conditions of companionship are, first, Honesty, and next, Manual Labour. The present "makeshift Master," a Cockney; Scott's ideal life. 10. The attempt to live by art one of the worst ways of begging by incompetent persons. 11. A third condition of Companionship is educational discipline. The author's qualifications for directing such discipline. 12. His projected grammars of geology, botany, and zoology, and his Bibliotheca Pastorum. The fame of others, not his own, the object of the author's life-work. 13. Authority of the Master of St. George's Company must be dictatorial. 14. The three orders of obedience and disobedience-diabolic, human, angelic. 15. The further objects of the Company clearly explained in Fors Clavigera. The author's manner of writing in Fors. 16-19. Sixteen aphorisms containing the gist of the book. 20. How help may generally be given to St. George's Company, How Companions are examined and registered. Cash NOTES AND CORRESPONDENCE.-21. Affairs of the Company. Accounts. 22. Letter from Messrs. Tarrant and Mackrell on the legal status of the St. George's Guild. The Master refers the subject to the decision of the Companions. 23. Affairs of the Master: accounts with notes. A charity at Abingdon; his servant Crawley; closing of his teashop. 24. Reply from Mr. Frederic Harrison to Letter 66. 25. The author's notes upon it. 26. Article from the Monetary Gazette on the pious sentiment of a modern British merchant. 27. Letter from Thomas Dixon on rent. PAGE 638 |