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Professor Charles H. Moore has an article in the October number of the "Atlantic Monthly" on "John Ruskin as an Art Critic." The article is mainly an analysis of Ruskin's theories as expressed in "Modern Painters," justifying Ruskin's general criticism...
...this time that Ruskin came forward with his first volume "in defence of the new landscape art in general, and of the art of Turner in particular." Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments,' in her finest forms and in her vital energy,-Nature as she was revealed to a discriminating eye, and to the poetic imagination." With this feeling he began his essay on 'Modern Painters' that grew to five volumes...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been appointed literary executor of the late Mr. John Ruskin. Mr. Ruskin and Professor Norton were very intimate and had known each other for almost fifty years. Professor Norton will go abroad for a month or more next summer to look over the literary remains of Ruskin. He will be assisted by Mrs. Severn, a co-executor, who was Ruskin's cousin, and his housekeeper...
...although in many ways a splendid character is possessed, in the words of a French critic of note, of "a will which is strongly deemed to have the willing power, but which is powerless to furnish itself with motive for the deed." In speaking of the New Testament, John Ruskin has said what may be well applied to the death of the hero of the play, that the most soul-stirring picture drawn by the Savior is the terrible condemnation of the rejected,--not of the evil doers, but of those who have failed to do good...
...been a number of famous men. In 1812, Henry Hart Miliman won the prize for a poem entitled the "Belvidere Apollo"; in 1832, Roundell Palmer, now Lord Selborne, won the prize for his "Staffa"; in 1837, Arthur Peurhyn Stanley, afterwards Dean of Westminster, for "The Gipsies"; in 1839, John Ruskin for his "Salsette and Elephanta"; in 1843, Matthew Arnold wrote the prize poem, "Cromwell"; in 1852, Edwin Arnold, "The Feast of Belshazzar." At a later date, in 1860, J. A. Symonds, author of the "Renaissance in Italy," won the prize for "The Escorial...