Show RUSKIN LETTERS TO BE PUBLISHED Communications Give Intimate Intimate Intimate Inti Inti- mate View on Many Subjects BLOOMINGTON Ill Oct 28 A 28 A series of more than two hundred fifty unpublished unpublished unpublished letters of John Ruskin Is being edited by Professor A A. A M l Brooks head of the fine arts department of Indiana university university uni uni- and will be by a publishing house of Boston The letters present an epitome of Ruskin's Ruskin's Ruskin's Rus- Rus kins kin's life They were by Ruskin during dUling a a. period of twenty-five twenty years to his friend William Ward Yard of ot Richmond Surrey England Ruskin and Ward Vard were Intimate friends and their views were similar on most s subjects The letters touch all nIl topics in which Ruskin was waa In Interested Interested interested In- In Including art economics literature literature literature liter liter- and music They are Illustrated by a a. number of drawings In Ruskin's own hand The correspondence correspondence correspondence cor cor- started through Wards Ward's as association association association as- as with Ruskin in the establishment establishment establishment establish establish- ment of or a workingmen's college organized to demonstrate s principles of economics Professor Brooks was requested to edit the letters by William Ward Yard Jr son of Ruskin's friend to whom the letters were written The original letters are In an excellent state of preservation and many of them are now In hI the hands of ot Professor Brooks who la is a close close- friend of William Ward ard Jr I j |