The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-12
THE Times RICHMOND VA. SUNDAY. AUGUST II. 1900.

multitude and movement. The multitude
is In the thoughts of this great and origi-
nal mind and the movement is the
worlds She notes that Ruskin first COM
mended the rejoinng together OF art and
handicrnft. and adds: For this, too, he
was generally derided, because men were
sure that the ugly thing was the useful
and comfortable
As child he, underwent severe d.sc;p-
line. was whipped and compelled to a self
denial that he perceived thus his elders did
not practice. His father was a Scottish
Wine merchant, who married his first
cousin, the daughter OF an inn-keeper.
Ruskin was born at 81 Hunter Street,
Brunswick Square, on February S, 1919.
He rend with a tutor. ma triculated at Ok
ford, where he won the Newdigate prize;
became honorary student of Christ Church,
and honorary fellow of Corpus Christi,
and in 1870 was elected Slade Professor,
to which chair he was three times re-
elected. AS boy he fell in love with the
daughter OF his fathers partner, md suf-
fered a disappointment which affected his
health. Later he married unfortunately.
and his VIE having left him after a few
yours, the marriage was annuiied. He
loved for many years a lady who had
been his quick disciple, but who seemed
rage with him. and who finally died es-
transed from him. It was for this girl
Rosie that he wrote Lilies the Sec
ond part of the volume entitled Sesame
and Lilies which Mrs Meynell charac-
terizes as 1.-The most decorat: lively beauti-
fur of his writings. But despite his I'M
happy love affairs the writer says that
his friendship with Turner was the cen
trail fact of his LIE as a young man.
John Ruskin, of his central, or later
central, years she describes us "a thin
and rather tall man, very English (Scot-
tlsh, in fact, but L mean to Indicate the
physique that looks conspicuous on the
Cont!nenO. active, light, with slopinS
shoulders: he had small fuce with large
features, the eyebrows, nose and. under
Up prominent; his eyes were blue, and the
blue tie-by the peculiar property Of a
strong blue to increase a neighboring les
ser blue, instead Of quenching it-made
them look the bluest of all blue eyes. He
had the in the thront, the of the
Parisians, which gives certain weak
ness to English speech, and in occurring
he had a rather clerical inflexion. He was
a disciple (as in his relation to Carlyle
and later to Prof. Norton), a master. a
pastor, a chvalrous servant to the young
and weak but too anxious, too lofty TO be
in the equal sense a friend. he was
broken by sorrow long before he died. HIS
purposes had been, for the time. defeated
But it was not failure or rejec-
ton, or even partial and futile acceptance
that finally and inter.orly bowed him.
Your poor John Ruskin' (his signature
in writing to one who loved and under
stood hirn) WIS the John Ruskin who
never pardoned mself for stopping sholt
of the whole remuneration Of Saint
Francis Lonely and unhappy does the
student perceive him to have been, who
was one of the greatest OF great men OF
all ages, but the student who is most cut
to the heart by thnt perception IS COM
PEELED 10 wish him to have been not less.
but more, a man sacrificed.
The first volume OF Modern PAINTERS
was published when he was only twenty
four, and the work was undertaken as
defense of Turner and in order to tench
men how they should see Turner TO De
Ike nature, whereas the cr-tlcs OIL th<t-
day called h m unnatural.
The second part of this sketch consists
of a brief but comprehensive analysis o.
rR,1sl.in's moro important writings. with
cuOtations from Indispensable pages, ana
the work is intended as handbook 10 the
more extended study Of Rusk!n- WINE
moi always agreeing tn the opinions a0-
vancad by the great writer Mrs Meyneil S
work has evidently been largely LABOR
of love. a tribute to a great genius, whose
Influence the world does not YET iuily ap-