[Bibliographical Note.—For particulars with regard to Ara Cœli (hitherto imprinted), see below, p. 191.

The other chapters were intended for the Sixth Part of Our Fathers have Told Us (see above, p. 186).

The first chapter, entitled “Candida Casa,” was set up in type by Ruskin some years before it was published in the volume edited for him by Mr. W. G. Collingwood under the title Verona and other Lectures (1893). For bibliographical particulars of that book, in which “Candida Casa” occupied pp. 77–108, see Vol. XIX. p. 427.

An “Appendix to ‘Candida Casa,’ on Saxon Money,” occupied pp. 109–111. This has been printed with Ruskin's other remarks on Coins in Vol. XXX. p. 278.

The second chapter, also printed in Verona and other Lectures, and there entitled “Mending the Sieve,” was originally written for a lecture delivered at the London Institution on Monday, December 4, 1882. The lecture was then entitled “Cistercian Architecture.”

A full abstract of the lecture (made by Mr. Wedderburn with Ruskin's sanction, and with the help of the MS. lent him for that purpose), containing several textual quotations and the plan of the Abbey of St. Gall, appeared in the Art Journal, February 1883, pp. 46–49. Shorter reports appeared in the Times and Pall Mall Gazette, December 5, 1882.

Passages in the Art Journal's report of the lecture as delivered, which were not reprinted, are now given in footnotes (see pp. 227, 235, 242, 245, 246).