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                          THE COMPLETE WORKS

                                  OF

                              JOHN RUSKIN

                             VOLUME XXIII

                          ARROWS OF THE CHACE

                             VOLUMES I-II




                          ARROWS OF THE CHACE

                                 BEING

                            A COLLECTION OF
                           SCATTERED LETTERS

               PUBLISHED CHIEFLY IN THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS

                               1840-1880

                              VOLUME II.

                   LETTERS ON POLITICS, ECONOMY, AND
                         MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS

"I NEVER WROTE A LETTER IN MY LIFE WHICH ALL THE WORLD ARE NOT WELCOME
TO READ IF THEY WILL."

                                 _Fors Clavigera_, Letter 59, 1875.




CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.


                                                                    PAGE
  CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE LETTERS CONTAINED IN VOL. II.              x

  LETTERS ON POLITICS AND WAR:

      The Italian Question. 1859.
          Three letters: June 6                                        3
                         June 15                                       8
                         August 1                                     13

      The Foreign Policy of England. 1863                             15

      The Position of Denmark. 1864                                   17

      The Jamaica Insurrection. 1865                                  20

      The Franco-Prussian War. 1870.
          Two letters: October 6                                      22
                       October 7                                      25

      Modern Warfare. 1876                                            29

  LETTERS ON POLITICAL ECONOMY:

      The Depreciation of Gold. 1863                                  37

      The Law of Supply and Demand. 1864.
          Three letters: October 26