JOHN RUSKIN HIS HOMES AND HAUNTS BY JAMES D. SIMON CONTENTS PARENTAGE AND CHILDHOOD HUNTER STREET AND HERNE HILL HERNE HILL AND EXCURSIONS OXFORD THE BEGINNINGS OF FAME THE INDUSTRY OF MIDLIFE FRANCE, SWITZERLAND, AND ITALY OXFORD ONCE MORE : THE SLADE PROFESSOR GATES OF THE HILLS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAIT OF RUSKIN RUSKINS BIRTHPLACE, 54 HUNTER STREET, BRUNSWICK SQUARE, W.C. RUSKINS HOUSE, No. 28 HERNE HILL . RUSKINS HOUSE, DENMARK HILL CHAMOUNI AND MONT BLANC THE QUADRANGLE AND PELICAN, CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, OXFORD RUSKINS WALK, DENMARK HILL KINNOULL CHRIST CHURCH, OXFORD DANIELIS HOTEL, VENICE ENTRANCE TO THE DOGES PALACE, VENICE THE MOAT OF NUREMBERG. DRAWING BY JOHN RUSKIN CONISTON WATER AND THE OLD MAN BRANTWOOD, CONISTON LOIRESIDE, BY RUSKIN, AFTER TURNER THE BRIDGE OF RHEINFELDEN ON THE RHINE, BY RUSKIN, AFTER TURNER PREFACE THIS essay is obviously an outline it could not be otherwise when the story of eighty years had to be told in eighty pages. The reader will find little that is new save an anecdote here and there but the treat ment, as regards locality, has at least the freshness of its attempt to describe places and scenes not as they may appear to the independent observer today, but as they appeared to Ruskin himself. The principal authority has therefore been the works of John Ruskin, in their compass. Quota tions not directly acknowledged in the text are from Prceterita. Elsewhere the sources are indicated. The author also acknowledges much valuable help from the biographical notes of Mr. Cook and Mr. Wedder burn in the Library Edition of Ruskin, as well as from the short biographies of Mr. Collingwood and Mr. Frederic Harrison. On nlany critical points he has consulted, always with illumination,, even where complete agreement was denied him, the invaluable monograph of Mrs. Meynell, and that of Mr. J. M. Mather. In justice to himself, he may perhaps confess that these pages were passed for press before he read Dean Kitchins Ruskin at Oxford. Cordial thanks are due to Mr. John Leith for his kindness in lending for reproduction a memorable letter of Ruskins. J. D. S.