Word: ruskinism
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...honor of the late Dr. E. Charlton Black, former lecturer on English Literature at the University, and member of the University Extension Commission, who died last summer, will be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Boston Public Library Lecture Hall, under the auspices of the Boston Ruskin Club. All members of the University are invited to attend...
John Sargent died in 1923, reading peacefully one evening in his London bed. An artist who transplanted a half-acre of roses for a garden picture, and carried a stuffed gazelle about Europe for another work, he was painstaking. A Victorian who said, "Ruskin, don t you know-rocks and clouds-silly old thing", he had critical independence. An observer who called English trees "old Victorian ladies going perpetually to church in a land where it is always Sunday afternoon," he was more whimsy-realistic than imaginative. An artist who, to fasten the attention of a restless, primitive Spanish model...
...York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. †Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Henry James...
...editions of Newton's famous treatises has been open for several days, but it is of undiminished interest for the scientific dilettante. Rare speciments of Dante's work are no less attractive to the dabbler in literature, but it is for the sake of some rare editions of John Ruskin's works and for seven original watercolors, most of them executed by him in the Swiss Alps, that the Vagabond is chiefly drawn to Widener...
...From Ruskin, the Vagabond will turn to the more recent artists whose works are on exhibition at the Fogg Museum and at Robinson Hall. The collection at Fogg, is of examples of modern French art. At Robinson Hall the Vagabond looks forward to seeing the drawings of R. K. Webel which won him the fellowship at the American Academy at Rome as well as works of Norman T. Newton, a former holder of the same scholarship...