" 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