manifestly disposed to evil? But what will be sweetest of all, if it may come to pass, will be that you should show yourself better even than _me_, and so make me your servant also: so that you need not fear in advancing age to be less honored in my house; but may have sure hope that in becoming old, by how much more you have become also a noble fellow-worker with me, and joint guardian of our children's possessions, by so much shall you be more honored in my household. For what is lovely and good increases for all men--not through fairness of the body, but through strength and virtue in things pertaining to life." And this is what I remember chiefly of what we said in our first talk together. I am, Sir, your faithful servant, J. RUSKIN. DENMARK HILL, _Sept._ 16. FOOTNOTES: [89] In the "admirable article" of September 15, in which the main features of the voluminous correspondence received by the _Daily Telegraph_ on the subject were shortly summed up. [90] A: Fairservice is mentioned in Mr. Ruskin's discussion of parts of the "Antiquary" in "Fiction, Fair and Foul" (_Nineteenth Century_, June, 1880) as an "example of innate evil unaffected by external influences." [91] This refers to a letter in which the writer gave an account of a robbery by a housemaid, and, drawing from her conduct the moral "put not your trust in London servants," concluded by signing his letter, "Ab _hoc_ disce omnes." [92] The last volume of Bishop Colenso's work on "The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua critically examined" was published in the April of the year in which these letters were written, and his deposition by the Bishop of Capetown had but recently been reversed by the Privy Council. It is to the discussion aroused by his book that Mr. Ruskin indirectly refers. [93] The leader in the _Art-Journal_ is Chapter vi. of "The Cestus of Aglaia," where "the infinite follies of modern thought, centred in the notion that liberty is good for a man, irrespectively of the use he is likely to make of it," are discussed at some length. The epitaphs quoted are not in the _Idler_ itself, but in the "Essay on Epitaphs" printed at the end of some editions of it. [94] This refers to a letter signed "W. B." in the _Daily Telegraph_ of September 12. [95] Charlotte Winsor was at this time under sentence of death for the murder of a child, which had been entrusted to her charge. I have been unable to verify the anecdote of her heroic anti-type. [96] The "admirable article" which had closed the discussion advised mistresses to resemble those of the good old days, and to deserve good servants, if they wished to secure them. It, somewhat inconsistently with the previous articles, declared that the days of good service would not be found altogether past, if it was remembered that by derivation "domestic" meant "homelike," and "family" one's servants, not one's children.