[Bibliographical Note.—Only a few extracts from the Essay on Painting and Music have hitherto been published. In the first edition of Mr. W. G. Collingwood's Life and Work of John Ruskin (i. 74—76) a brief synopsis is given, with two extracts (the first parts of § 6 and § 19). Some further passages are given in a volume, published in 1894, under the title “Ruskin on Music, edited by A. M. Wakefield” (George Allen). In that volume Miss Wakefield brought together the principal passages in Ruskin's works dealing with Music, and in ch. ii. (“Music and Early Influences”) she printed some extracts from this Essay. The passages included in Ruskin on Music are as follow: § 2, from “The power of enjoying Music” to “after the image of God”; § 4, down to “so sublime, a worship”; § 6, down to “Music be without the association”; § 8; § 10, down to “not altogether to be depended upon”; and § 17.

The passages from Ruskin's other works collected by Miss Wakefield are:—

(In ch. i. of Ruskin on Music, “Of the Ideal in Music”) Fors Clavigera, letter ix. (extracts).

(In ch. ii., “Music and Early Influences”) Prœterita, i. ch x. §§ 200, 202—204 (extracts); Letters to Dale, i. § 6 (p. 385, below); Modern Painters, vol. iii. preface, § 5 (short extract).