. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. nts and visitors. Thistime the negotiations have been brought to atriumphant ending. The Corporation offered thehall, garden, and Bishops House to the Guild,conditionally on the art collection being securedto them for twenty years, and the trustees l60 SOME ASPECTS OF MR. RUSKINs WORK. joyfully accepted the offer (August, 1889). Itis a rule of the Guild that the Master mustnot be bothered, so the matter was briefly laidbefore Mr. Ruskin, and his cousin, Mrs. Severn,promptly forwarded his ratification of the m
. Studies in Ruskin: some aspects of the work and teaching of John Ruskin. nts and visitors. Thistime the negotiations have been brought to atriumphant ending. The Corporation offered thehall, garden, and Bishops House to the Guild,conditionally on the art collection being securedto them for twenty years, and the trustees l60 SOME ASPECTS OF MR. RUSKINs WORK. joyfully accepted the offer (August, 1889). Itis a rule of the Guild that the Master mustnot be bothered, so the matter was briefly laidbefore Mr. Ruskin, and his cousin, Mrs. Severn,promptly forwarded his ratification of the mansion has been suitably decorated ; thecollections have been transferred to it, and thenew Museum was opened by the Earl of Carlisleon April iSth, 1890. A greatly enlarged careerof usefulness has thus been opened up for theRuskin Museum, which will long remain, wemay hope, as a monument of the Acts promotedby Mr. Ruskins Gospel. * * The Curator of the Museum is Mr. Wilhain White,from whom al! particulars with regard to its rules, hours ofopening, etc., may be CHAPTER VI. SOME INDUSTRIAL EXPERIMENTS. The place occupied in Mr. Ruskins schemes ofpractical endeavour by the industrial experi-ments of the St. Georges Guild cannot be betterdescribed than in Mr. Ruskins own words. The notices which I see, he wrote in January,1886, in the leading journals, of efforts nowmaking for the establishment of industrial vil-lages, induce me to place before the membersof the St. Georges Guild the reasons for theirassociation, in a form which may usefully becommended to the attention of the general St. Georges Guild was instituted with aview of showing, in practice, the rational organi-zation of country life, independent of that ofcities. All theefforts, whether of the Governmentor the landed proprietors of England, for the helpor instruction of our rural population, have beenmade under two false suppositions : the first, II 162 SOME ASPECTS OF MR. RUSKIns WORK. that countr
Size: 1390px × 1797px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorcookedwa, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookyear1890
