Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-06 | Page 5 | Who Said

I WHO SAID 4 " Vft r work. thn ret." The temperament of John Ruskin, (ho groat English writer of the paBt century, was truly that of a poet. He was an idealist and the thought of Iho march of industrial progress heln'j permitted to encroach upon th beauties beau-ties of nature was most repulslvo io him. Tho beauties of rivers, clouds, and mountains were of far more value. val-ue. In his eyes than tho products of factories and railroads, and his later years were spent In a battle against these dospollers of his beloved nature. It was tho fortune of ltuskin that his people wore well to do. and disposed dis-posed to give him every opportunity to develop the poetic temperament that was his He was given every educational educa-tional advantage by his parents and. with i hem, ho took many trlp throughout England and on the continent con-tinent a-s well i n those trips he stud-led. stud-led. sketched, and made notes which were later to play an important part in his life. I misKin was wuioiuiua ui o mi iu in addition lo being a writer. Ho stud-led stud-led drawing under such masters as Uunelman. Copely Fled ling, and Harding. Har-ding. In poetry he was the friend of Rogsra, Byron and Shelley, and his , , n' iy' i v illi these men meant much to him. Kale seemed to conspire toj make hi mtravel for In 1S36. shortly after he had entered 'xford. he was forced to leave because of a threaton-enlng threaton-enlng pulmonary trouble and ho again became a traveler. One of the best known works of this writer is bis "Modern r.iinlers." His death occurred in 1900 when he was 81 years of age. Wayne I"). MacMurray.