New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-06-27
JOHN RUSKIN'S YOUTH.
HIS WAYS OF oUT-oF EXPERIMENTATION liz
LOOK D.

HIS WAYS OF OUT-oF INSTRUMENTATION HH
LOOKED.
Mr.. Ruskin gives in his recently published
CHAPTERS Of Prateria interesting details OF his
student years He notes that his brilliant tutor Os.
borne Gordon, stopped MIN in half formed purpose to
throw everything aside for time and make himself
sound Creek scholar. think 1t would give you mole
Trouble than 1t is WORTH" said Gordon. The tutors IN
augural to his pupil was When yod have gos
too much do d,n't do 1t "-"a Golden saying, ADDS
Ruskin which | have often repeated since, but NOS
enough obeyed" 1t during tue rule Of Gordon that
the young Russins nrst enthusiasm for Turner's pet
ures arose. He shaiel this enthusiasm with Godfrey
Wndus "A re tired coaehmakeT who owned, and deshlei
In, a quantity OF Turner's drawings. nobody ID d"
England at that tme," says Ruskin-- and Turner Was
already sixty-care in the true sense OF the woh ior
Turner but the retired coachmskcr Of Totenham andL
IT TO the days spent i'll Mr. Winduss rooms iA"I We
owe the Mo Tern Painters"
When inst OF age Ruskin's lungs showed weakness
which led his father and mother take him 10 ITALY,
In Rome he mentions that he met Joseph severn anu
Gcorse Richmond who Interested IN the ooys
ways out ot-the wayness which were by no means
quiet but perpeuay firing up an ler their ieei III '
sputers ana spttres Of the most appalling heresy; ana
those not only troublesome IN Immediate eaeAlc oas
carried out into steady and not always reiut ooo'
ton TO nearly everything sacred tei sight OF tue AUTO
cratic masters and authentic splendors OF Rome.
Ths youths parents cxpec.ant OF his future greatness
resolved TO have him carved IN cameo. which ACTON
gives occasion for graphic description o. his DO! sa
countenance:
had always been content enough with my IRON, a'c
in the glass and had never thought of conIrNnE 'so
of the profile The nnishei. saw Al "a saheo "
lie well cut but the image II gave OF mo WAS not 70 ~
mind | did not aualyLe Its elements a. VIC time. pu'
should now describe II as Ceotec the fnr's penn.
with a natpcnuy worth Of George The Fodrh ia. p'u
OF Amurath Fifth, and the temper oI elebI '''
Luciiers III a swept lodging 49,. .,,.,.
Now I knew myself ond yea. ana o. iate' SUI GU ca.
but lid not the least recognise pide or suAlIVa'
a ..iug faults OF uatnte On the Contrary 49,,
IN self wholly To all real greatLes anu "oy
good / umored -whrn got my own way "h"' mo''
can yon expect OF average boy, or Ooast .,,
And IL seemed hard To Tue that only tho eNoo'.ops
faults and by the constant cal, eltlcS sno"s
be set forth carved Dy the petty Justice o thc iia.
cameo CONCERNING which, a. aso other later Po't'i
OF me- will bo thu, tar proud ~ 10 tel the us"Pt
snsctator onne for all that the main gooa oi ny io a.
OF my life tho cyos-and only la thOsr -rcn no"
that "A very dear anu French friend aSo 'ou NC
lous Willis ater this that ths ls thoush ho' ao"0'
kind. ~,
Up 20 this tire when he got this starting ana us
courasing glimpse Of himself RnsSin records no ma
been and was year two simply htt1o "opp'
and scppy tadpole-itte more than ston aoh WIZ"
tail to It, nattening and wrggng itself ny 'he e''''~.
rppes and Ia the pure sands OF tho spiins u'A" ~
youth"