THE RELIGION of RUSKIN The Life and Works of John Ruskin BY WILLIAM BURGESS Author of "The Bible in Shakspeare," “To my Dear and Ethereal Ruskin, whom God preserve.”—Inscription of Thos. Carlyle in a book presented to Ruskin. "There is nothing going on among us as notable to me as those fierce lightning-bolts Ruskin is copiously and desperately pouring into the black world of Anarchy all around him. No other man in England that I meet has in him that divine rage against iniquity, falsity and baseness that Ruskin has, and that every man ought to have."-Letter from Carlyle to Emerson. "No other critic ever occupied such a position. He expresses thoughts on art in words which, in their exquisite collocation, their perfection at once of form and lucidity, have been rivalled in our generation, only by Cardinal Newman. . . His older books are among the treasures of the bibliophile, his later works are purchased like scarce plates, his opinions are quoted like texts from a holy book."-The Spectator. V. |