Excerpt from Ruskin and His Circle The task of selection has been no light one so far as the circle is concerned. Ruskin's friends were legion, and to include them all - even cursorily - would have lengthened the book beyond reason able limits. I decided that it was better to confine my attention to those directly influencing his life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from John Ruskin, the Voice of the New Age In the concrete we are Christian, but in the realm of the abstract we are part infidel. The story of some simple life comes to us in the measure of an unequaled charm. To the mind are presented three objects - love, religion, and patriotism. Give them flesh, and we understand. Real men with real voices and real hearts make an earthly scene which is attractive. Philosophy can explain the song-bird; but explanation is not inspiration. The latter we must have. The bird in the overhanging bough moves us as it pours forth a throat filled with liquid song. But the theory of music is a bald conclusion. The history of flowers, rocks, and stars can never compete with the story of some great heart. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 39 With such material in han d, the first question which the editors had to decide concerned the form in which Index references were to be given. They would have been saved a great deal of trouble if the old references (to chapters and numbered sections) had been retained, but this plan would have been inconvenient in the present edition, which contains so much new matter. The plan of giving a double system of references (so that the Index might in a measure have been available for the previous editions of Ruskin) was upon reflection rejected. Considerations of space were decisive against it. Moreover, this Library Edition is intended to be, and is likely always to be, the Reference Ruskin, and as such may be expected to find a place in most per manent libraries, private and public, in this and other countries. The preliminary preparation of index-slips for the hitherto unprinted matter, as well as for the notes and introductions, was the work of Miss Slaughter. Much re-arrangement has, of course, been necessary, and it has often been convenient to combine several references under a new heading. The index, as finally presented, is the work of the two editors; Mr. Wedderburn having done the letter a (except Art and Artists), the Bible, and the letters d, h, i, j, k, n, 0, q, u, o, to (with some exceptions), a', y and z, and Mr. Cook, the rest; and the whole work having then been subjected to a joint revision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from John Opie and His Circle It would be impossible here to thank all my correspondents individually: each letter was replied to at the time, and I now repeat (both in my own name and on the part of my readers) my grateful acknowledgment of the valuable help thus given me in compiling the list of Opie's works. Seldom, I am sure, has a literary worker had such an abundance of good wishes for success from total strangers to these Mr. R. Hall Mccormick added a more tangible expression of goodwill in the gift of a copy of the handsomely illustrated catalogue of his private picture gallery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Vol. 29: Miscellanies, Volumes One and Two Leoni' s better nature had been borne down by the Violence of his passions, and he became what he abhorred, and widely was the fear of his name spread; for he passed over the land like a meteor, and left desolation behind him in the palaces of the great and the powerful, but not in the hamlets of the poor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Cameos From Ruskin The book will have accomplished its mis sion if it leads any of its readers, especially young readers who are seriously interested in art, to long for and seek all of the art wisdom Mr. Ruskin offers them, in each and all of his wonderful books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Ruskin and His Circle Up to the present, although the Life of Ruskin has been most ably written by Mr. W. G. Collingwood and others, there has been no attempt (so far as I am aware) at an independent biography; nor any study of the direct relationship between the influences surrounding Ruskin's earlier years and his greatness, shortcomings, and inconsistencies. Ruskin was the victim of circumstances. The key to much that is contradictory or irritating in his writings is to be found in the story of his life. Hitherto, from a mistaken idea of respect for his memory, his married life has been slurred over by his biographers. At this distance of time, when all the principal actors in the drama are dead, reticence is neither necessary nor wise. Ruskin's character does not suffer by a true account of facts so much as by the concealment of them. The task of selection has been no light one so far as the "circle" is concerned. Ruskin's friends were legion, and to include them all - even cursorily - would have lengthened the book beyond reasonable limits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.