ABSTRACT
1. Another reconciliation: Rose's decline: Ruskin consoles her for the last time: her tragic death: Ruskin's grief. 2. He tries to appear cheerful: plans further works: "Proserpina" and "Deucalion". 3. Darkened rooms: the spirit of Rose appears in the drawing-room at Broadlands: Ruskin identifies Rose with Beatrice and St. Ursula: he loses his mental balance: a dream-marriage. 4. Ruskin's quarrel with Octavia Hill. 5. He becomes his own publisher. 6. The Whistler case: the Grosvenor Gallery: Ruskin castigates the "Falling Rocket" in "Fors", and attacks its painter: Whistler takes action for libel: Whistler's career and character: the trial: divided loyalties of many witnesses: judgment, with contemptuous damages, for Whistler: "Art and Art Critics": Ruskin's unpublished "apology".
