APPENDIX II
       It is very fortunate that in the fragment of Mason's MSS., published
       lately by Mr. Cotton in his "Sir Joshua Reynolds' Notes," [Footnote:
       Smith, Soho Square, 1859.] record is preserved of Sir Joshua's feelings
       respecting the paintings in the window of New College, which might
       otherwise have been supposed to give his full sanction to this mode of
       painting on glass. Nothing can possibly be more curious, to my mind,
       than the great painter's expectations; or his having at all entertained
       the idea that the qualities of colour which are peculiar to opaque
       bodies could be obtained in a transparent medium; but so it is: and
       with the simplicity and humbleness of an entirely great man he hopes
       that Mr. Jervas on glass is to excel Sir Joshua on canvas. Happily,
       Mason tells us the result.
       "With the copy Jervas made of this picture he was grievously
       disappointed. 'I had frequently,' he said to me, 'pleased myself by
       reflecting, after I had produced what I thought a brilliant effect of
       light and shadow on my canvas, how greatly that effect would be
       heightened by the transparency which the painting on glass would be
       sure to produce. It turned out quite the reverse.'"
       Content of APPENDIX II [John Ruskin's essay: The Two Paths]
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