Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-21
Of fairly good repute,

Although a great deal has been writ
ten about Ruskin, the unique person.
alty OF the man and his uncompromis-
ing attitude towards the world give an
essential Importance to eVerythine
which Increases the sum Of our knowi-
edge about him. Rev. w. c. COllinps
wood whose intimate association with
the great critic led to the writing OF
an authoritative Life OF Ruskin,' sup.
PIGMENTS that work with a quarto vol.
ume IN which the many and curious
'Ruskin Relics are pictured and de-
scrbed, The contents of the book are
reprinted In part from Good Words
and other English publications, and
they deal interestingly with Ruskln's
chair, his library, his gardens, his maps.
his drawings, his Bibles, his Jewels ana
other equally important matter. Many
OF his sketches are reproduced, others
by Mr. CollingwoOd are inserted and
there are numerous Photographic repre-
sensations or the places and things
when appeal to the varying moods of
Ruskln. The volume is valuable esp.-
cially as II deals with matters upon
which the Ruskin student will be glad
10 dwell. Something tangible" saws
Mr.. Colling'Wood, that brings before us
the person rathar than his work, is
what We like; for though successful
workers are continually asking us To
Judge them by what they have done. we
Know there is more. We want TO see
their Portraits their faces will tell US
better than their books--whether we
can trust them. We want to know their
lives by signs and tokens unconscIously
left before we fail down and worship
them for what, after all, may be only
n lucky accident of success. They cry
out Indignantly that this should not
be- but so II is"
Perhaps the most satisfactory chapter
In volume where all is satisfactory, is
the one devoted TO Ruskin's garden.
Although Ruskin was interested in boz
tauy as a science. he was nevertheless
an enthusiastic deVOtee of landscape
gardening He liked to MAKE paths,
hyWays and hooks, to build bridges
and steps and to lay out fowerbeds, but
Mr., Collingwood never remembers that
lie took any interest In potting and
grating plants, or that he was ever al
lured by the charms Of curlosties listed
IN the nurseryman's catalOg, His rock
gardens were a particular pleasure to
him He was not a unitarian I'm gar
dening, except as the useful contributed
TO his idea Of beauty. "The charm OF
II was that IL brought the natural adj
yantages and local usages into a new
light, with Just the refinement Of feel
ing which made a flight Of steps into
rock garden ana tennis ground into
Purist painters glade, Who but ne
would have planted his field with mar.
cissus, scattered thinly among the
grass TO surprise you with a reminls-
conce, OF Nevey2 And in the old gar
den below though he did not create &C.
you can trace his feeling in the tar
raced 2lgzag Of paths hedged with APP
pie and the cotOneaster which flourisheS
at ConIston, and filled in with sloping
patches OF trawherry and gooseberry.
lie wanted nothing Of irregularty and
unkempt confusion Incorporating ns arr
about his garden. Everything must
minister to his unqucstlonably accurate
idea Of the beautiful"
Doubleday. Page n Co., are finally
completing the great Hartman Alaska
work. They are now publishing the
large volumes VIII and X devoted re-
spectively 20 the scientific considera-
ton Of the Insects and crustaceans Of
the vast northern territory,
Harper & Brothers have by special
arrangement taken over all the novels
OF Irving Bachelor, including "Eben
Holden" "Dri and I" and "Darrel OF
the Blessed Isles" and are henceforth
the publishers Of his past and future
Wor1 Mr.. Bachelor has just complet
ed new novel and this will be pub