International studio . CROSS-STITCH DESIGN BY AGIRL IN THE ELEMENTARYCLASS OF THE ROYAL HUN-GARIAN ARTS AND CRAFTSSCHOOL, BUDAPEST REVIEWS ANDNOTICES for full biography are all here. It is improbable that the authorof Modern Painters and the Oxford Lectures, of fantastic title,will ever be rivalled in generalising profoundly on the relation oflife to art. It was when Ruskin came down to particulars thathis momentary whims got out of hand and compromised theappearance of his best conclusions. The Whistler incident shooka great reputation to itsfoundations and destroyedconfidence in Ruskinssense
International studio . CROSS-STITCH DESIGN BY AGIRL IN THE ELEMENTARYCLASS OF THE ROYAL HUN-GARIAN ARTS AND CRAFTSSCHOOL, BUDAPEST REVIEWS ANDNOTICES for full biography are all here. It is improbable that the authorof Modern Painters and the Oxford Lectures, of fantastic title,will ever be rivalled in generalising profoundly on the relation oflife to art. It was when Ruskin came down to particulars thathis momentary whims got out of hand and compromised theappearance of his best conclusions. The Whistler incident shooka great reputation to itsfoundations and destroyedconfidence in Ruskinssense of the beautiful, butconfidence might equallyhave been destroyed inWhistlers own sense of thesame, since his attitudetowards a later impression-ism was just what Ruskinshad been to his work. Thefact is, of course, that thesegreat innovators cannotstand innovations from any. CROSS-STITCH DESIGN BY A GIRL IN THE ELEMENTARY CLASS OF THE ROYAL HUNGARIAN ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL, BUDAPEST The Life of Ruskin. By Cook. (London: GeorgeAllen.) 2 vols. 2\s. net.—This, the official Life, is pub-lished, we doubt not, to awaiting special public, as wellas to the world at large; forthe Ruskin cult has survived better than any of themany other cults of the nineteenth century. Thefirst volume of this biography deals with Ruskin inart criticism—the production of Modern Painters,Stones of Venice, The Seven I^amps of Architec-ture, &c.; the second more especially with laterwritings upon political economy. Lately there hasbeen a tendency to exalt this phase of Ruskinswork at the expense of his writings upon art. Forus, however, these remain the greatest achievementsof this remarkable personality. Mr. Cooks is essentially the intellectual life otRuskin, but the descriptions of his homes, details ofhis travel and the connection of incident necessary
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