[Transcriber's Note: The first part of this volume (September 1879) was produced as Project Gutenberg Ebook #30048. The relevant part of the table of contents has been extracted from that document. The rest of the Transcriber Notes are at the end of the Book.] * * * * * _The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, Issue 4_ Published December 1879. * * * * * CONTENTS. DECEMBER, 1879. PAGE The Lord's Prayer and the Church: Letters Addressed to the Clergy. By John Ruskin, D.C.L. 539 India under Lord Lytton. By Lieut.-Colonel R. D. Osborn 553 On the Utility to Flowers of their Beauty. By the Hon. Justice 574 Where are we in Art? By Lady Verney 588 Life in Constantinople Fifty Years Ago. By an Eastern Statesman 601 Miracles, Prayer, and Law. By J. Boyd Kinnear 617 What is Rent? By Professor Bonamy Price 630 Buddhism and Jainism. By Professor Monier Williams 644 Lord Beaconsfield:-- 665 I. Why we Follow Him. By a Tory. II. Why we Disbelieve in Him. By a Whig. Contemporary Life and Thought in France. By Gabriel Monod 697 * * * * * THE LORD'S PRAYER AND THE CHURCH. LETTERS ADDRESSED BY JOHN RUSKIN, D.C.L., TO THE CLERGY. The following letters, which are still receiving the careful consideration of many of my brother clergy, are, at the suggestion of the Editor, now printed in the CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, with the object of eliciting a further and wider expression of opinion. In addition to the subjoined brief Introductory Address, I desire here to say that every reader of these remarkable letters should remember that they have proceeded from the pen of a very eminent layman, who has not had the advantage, or disadvantage, of any special theological training; but yet whose extensive studies in Art have not prevented him from fully recognizing, and boldly avowing, his belief that religion is everybody's business, and _his_ not less than another's. The draught may be a bitter one for some of us; but it is a salutary medicine, and we ought not to shrink from swallowing it. I shall be glad to receive such expressions of opinion as I may be favoured with from the thoughtful readers of the CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. Those comments or replies, along with the original letters, and an essay or commentary from myself as editor, will be published by Messrs. Strahan & Co., and appear early in the spring; the volume being closed by a reply, or Epilogue, from Mr. Ruskin himself. F. A. MALLESON, M.A. The Vicarage, Broughton-in-Furness. INTRODUCTION. The first reading of the Letters to the Furness Clerical Society was prefaced with the following remarks:--