Show j Ruskin's Buskins Precocity HAT the times proclaim the W WHAT precocity 0 of such children a as young and other youthful prodigies belongs b by no means menus to this s generation n John Hu Ruskin appears to have been beai an example of oC the same ame kind of oC thing When only four Cour years ears of oC age ase he wrote a letter In to which he corrected his aunt for tor having put In hm Ina Ina a pillar of or his Waterloo bridge upside down Here was foreshadowed hi hl his Seven Lamps of Architecture no doubt At t five fi he was it is gravely asserted asserted asserted as as- b by blo biographers a bookworm and at seven se he lie had begun a work worl In four volumes with copper plates printed and aud composed by a little boy and also abo drawn draw His Modern Painters Painters Painters Paint Paint- ers Indeed was published before he I was twenty five and It no doubt contains contains con some sonic of oC his most notable writing writing writ writ- ing better in hm point of style and beauty beauty beauty beau beau- ty than much of tho the taller latter work which came when he was under pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure for tor tinge tIme to do all that he ho strove to accomplish for tor Cor the time enlightenment of oC his follow men men Christian Christian Science Monitor |