In August 1882 Ruskin set out with Mr. Collingwood upon a holiday-journey of the kind that the judiciously experienced traveller accounts the best: it included familiar scenes, yet broke also some new ground. Ruskin's travelling companion has written an account of their journey in a chapter which he calls “ Ruskin's Old Road.” The title is happy, for Ruskin, it seems, had already Prœterita in contemplation, and it was one object of his tour to revisit the scenes and revive the memories of old days. He drove once more, as in the old posting-days, through the Jura to Geneva— stopping at Champagnole. “I never thought to date from this dear place more,” he says in his diary (Sept. 3), “ and I am here in, for my age, very perfect health so far as I feel or know, and was very thankful on my mother's birthday to kneel down once more on the rocks of Jura.” At Sallenches it was one of the pleasures of the tour to take his friend to favourite sights and scenes. He thus showed “ Norton's glen,” so called in memory of happy walks in former years. The friend gave as much pleasure as he received.