514 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

The text of the “Notes” was the same in all editions, except for a few printers’ alterations noticed below.

The pamphlet was reprinted (with all three Prefaces) in On the Old Road, 1885, vol. ii. pp. 249-301 (§§ 182-301), and again in the Second Edition of that collection, 1899, vol. iii. pp. 255-309 (§§ 182-301). The numbering of the paragraphs (first introduced in 1885) is altered in this edition.

Varić Lectiones.-The differences in the text between the various editions of the pamphlet (other than those already described) are very slight, and are mostly matters of punctuation, etc.; e.g., in § 9, line 14, for “one seven-thousandth part,” ed. 1 reads “the ¹/7000th part”; § 13, line 11, ed. 3 misreads “the people” for “people”-a misprint followed in both editions of On the Old Road; § 25, note, line 7, eds. 1 and 2 read “had,” ed. 3 reads “has.” The paragraphs are in this edition renumbered.

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The publication of the pamphlet in 1851 produced the following replies:-

Notes on Shepherds and Sheep. A letter to John Ruskin, Esq., M.A. By William Dyce, M.A., Royal Academician; Professor of the Theory of the Fine Arts, King’s College, London. “Si intellixisti spiritualiter (verba Christi) spiritus et vita tibi sunt; si intellixisti carnaliter, etiam spiritus et vita sunt, sed tibi non sunt” (S. August.-Tract xxvii.). London: Longmans, Brown, Green and Longmans. MDCCCLI. 8vo, pp. 36.

A Reply to “Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds.” By a Graduate of the University of Cambridge. London: C. Goodall and Son, 30 Great Pulteney Street, Golden Square; and Thomas Bosworth, 215 Regent Street. 1851. 8vo, pp. 16.

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A privately-printed volume, referring to the Notes, has the following title-page:-

Two Letters | Concerning | “Notes on the Construction of Sheepfolds.” | Addressed to | The Rev. F.D. Maurice, M.A., | in 1851. | By | John Ruskin, LL.D., D.C.L. | Author of “Modern Painters,” etc., and Honorary Fellow of Corpus | Christi College, Oxford | With Forewords by | F.J. Furnivall, M.A., Hon. Dr. Phil. | London. | Printed for Private Distribution only. | 1890.

Crown 8vo, pp. 30. On the reverse of the title-page “Not for Sale” and the imprint “R. Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay.” “Forewords,” signed “F. J. Furnivall, 3 St. George’s Square, Primrose Hill, N.W. 8 October, 1890,” occupy pp. 7-14. These begin with some personal reminiscences of Ruskin and his wife in 1848-1850; the description of Ruskin has been cited at Vol. VIII. p. 34, and the rest is cited in the later volume containing Ruskin’s other letters to Furnivall. Passages from F. D. Maurice’s letters cited in later pages of the “Forewords” are given, and Dr. Furnivall’s account of the correspondence is incorporated, in the Appendix to Part III. of this volume, below, pp. 561, 565, 568. Ruskin’s Letter I. (pp. 17-22) is here given, pp. 562-565; Letter II. (pp. 23-26), pp. 566-568; his first letter to Dr. Furnivall (given as Appendix to the book now being described, pp. 29-30) is given on p. 569 here. Issued in white “vellum”

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