13

" 2. Italian Cottage Gallery, 1846 20

Cottage near la Cite, Val d'Aosta, 1838 21

" 3. Swiss Cottage, 1837. (Reproduced from the
Architectural Magazine) 28

" 4. Cottage near Altorf, 1835 29

" 5. Swiss Chalet Balcony, 1842 32

" 6. The Highest House in England, at Malham 42

" 7. Chimneys. (Eighteen sketches redrawn from the
Architectural Magazine) 48

" 8. Coniston Hall, from the Lake near Brantwood, 1837.
(Reproduced from the Architectural Magazine) 50

" 9. Chimney at Neuchatel; Dent du Midi and Mont Blanc in
the distance 20

" 10. Petrarch's Villa, Arqua, 1837. (Redrawn from the
Architectural Magazine) 98

" 11. Broken Curves. (Three diagrams, redrawn from the
Architectural Magazine) 101

" 12. Old English Mansion, 1837. (Reproduced from the
Architectural Magazine) 116

" 13. Windows. (Three designs, reproduced from the
Architectural Magazine) 122

" 14. Leading Lines of Villa-Composition. (Diagram redrawn
from the Architectural Magazine) 164

PREFATORY NOTES.

Of this work Mr. RUSKIN says in his Autobiography:--"The idea had come
into my head in the summer of '37, and, I imagine, rose immediately out
of my sense of the contrast between the cottages of Westmoreland and
those of Italy. Anyhow, the November number of Loudon's _Architectural
Magazine_ for 1837 opens with 'Introduction to the Poetry of
Architecture; or the Architecture of the Nations of Europe considered in
its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character,' by Kata
Phusin. I could not have put in fewer, or more inclusive words, the
definition of what half my future life was to be spent in discoursing
of; while the _nom-de-plume_ I chose, 'ACCORDING TO NATURE,' was equally
expressive of the temper in which I was to discourse alike on that, and
every other subject. The adoption of a _nom-de-plume_ at all implied (as
also the concealment of name on the first publication of 'Modern
Painters') a sense of a power