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Show "Old-fashioned Ruskln Nevertheless, though 'the future)' may prefer to read Ruskin In BeJo tions, k is . not conceivable that th present affectation to despise so great a writer and so fine a spirit will persist. This generation may bo tired of Ruskin, but the next will return re-turn to his noblest things with new pleasure. He had an ear, passion, pas-sion, exquisite BensJMllties, a won derful eye for the minutest and th grandest colored forms of nature and 'he made some of the most magnificent magnif-icent things In Bnglisti prose, passages pas-sages like the lament over St. Mark's-unsurpassed Mark's-unsurpassed descriptions of pictures, landscapes, trees, flowers. Solomon Eagle. |