ABSTRACT
1. Ruskin resigns the Slade Professorship: social visits: new friends: second attack of brain fever: holiday abroad. 2. Ruskin meets Francesca Alexander: his admiration of her character and work. 3. Invitation to resume the Slade Professorship: the popularity of his lectures. 4. The Pre-Raphaelites again: praise of Rossetti: friendship with Holman Hunt: appreciation of Millais: relations with Burne-Jones. 5. The lectures become eccentric: Ruskin's suggestions to the Vice-Chancellor ignored; his disgust over the introduction into the University of vivisection: he resigns his Oxford chair.
