NOTES. 



I. The following letter, from one of my most faithful read- 

 ers, corrects an important piece of misinterpretation in the 

 text The waving of the reins must be only in sign of the 

 fluctuation of heat round the Sun's own chariot : 



" Spring Field, Ambleside, 



"February 11, 1875. 



" Dear Mr. Ruskin, Your fifth lecture on Engraving I 

 have to hand. 



"Sandro intended those wavy lines meeting under the 

 Sun's right * hand, (Plate V.) primarily, no doubt, to represent 

 the four ends of the four reins dangling from the Sun's hand. 

 The flames and rays are seen to continue to radiate from the 

 platform of the chariot between and beyond these ends of 

 the reins, and over the knee. He may have wanted to ac-' 

 knowledge that the warjnth of the earth was Apollo's, by mak- 

 ing these ends of the reins spread out separately and wave, 

 and thereby enclose a form like a flame. But I cannot think it. 

 " Believe me, 



" Ever yours truly, 



CHAS. WM. SMITH." 



IL I meant to keep labyrinthine matters for my Appendix ; 

 but the following most useful byewords from Mr. Tyrrwhitt 

 had better be read at once : 



" In the matter of Cretan Labyrinth, as connected by Vir- 



* " Would not the design have looked better, to us, on the plate than 

 on the print ? On the plate, the reins would be in the left hand ; and 

 the whole movement be from the left to the right ? The two different 

 forms that the radiance takes would symbolize respectively heat and 

 light, would they not ? " 



