Produced by Stacy Brown, Simple Simon, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN ARROWS OF THE CHACE OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US THE STORM-CLOUD OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY HORTUS INCLUSUS NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO "Our Fathers Have Told Us" SKETCHES OF THE HISTORY OF CHRISTENDOM FOR BOYS AND GIRLS WHO HAVE BEEN HELD AT ITS FONTS PART I. THE BIBLE OF AMIENS CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE iii CHAPTER I.--BY THE RIVERS OF WATERS 1 " II.--UNDER THE DRACHENFELS 26 " III.--THE LION TAMER 58 " IV.--INTERPRETATIONS 88 APPENDIX I.--CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS REFERRED TO IN THE 'BIBLE OF AMIENS' 143 " II.--REFERENCES EXPLANATORY OF PHOTOGRAPHS TO CHAPTER IV 144 " III.--GENERAL PLAN OF 'OUR FATHERS HAVE TOLD US' 153 INDEX 155 PLATES. ST. MARY (_Frontispiece_) _see page_ 131 _To face page_ PLATE I.--THE DYNASTIES OF FRANCE 8 " II.--THE BIBLE OF AMIENS, NORTHERN PORCH BEFORE RESTORATION 26 " III.--AMIENS, JOUR DES TRESPASSES, 1880 58 PLAN OF THE WEST PORCHES 140 Transcriber's Notes: 1. Italic characters have been represented by _xxxxx_ 2. Superscript characters have been represented by xxx^yy 3. A macron, or bar over a letter, is shown as [=letter] 4. In the paragraph that begins, "Sketch for yourself, first, a map of France" there are images in the paragraph. I have represented back-slanting diagonal shading with "\\\" and forward-slanting diagonal shading with "///" and horizontal shading with "=". 5. In the original text, footnotes in Chapter I are represented with numbers, and footnotes in all the rest of the text, including the notes on Chapter I, are represented with symbols. I have converted all of them to numbers, since there is no overlap, and they seem to be used in the same way in the text. PREFACE. The long abandoned purpose, of which the following pages begin some attempt at fulfilment, has been resumed at the request of a young English governess, that I would write some pieces of history which her pupils could gather some good out of;--the fruit of historical documents placed by modern educational systems at her disposal, being to them labour only, and sorrow.