Word: ruskinism
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...though no doubt well educated, yet its literary taste or judgment is not of the highest. Mr. George McDonald, Mr. Smiles, Mr. Justin McCarthy are among the forty. However "Lord" Tennyson heads the list with 501 votes. His chief work is "In Memoriam." Next to Mr. Tennyson comes Mr. Ruskin with 462 votes; Mr. Matthew Arnold is third with 455, and Mr. Browning fourth with 448. Mr. Ruskin's chief work is, according to the number of votes it received. "Modern Painters;" Mr. Arnold's is "Literature and Dogma;" Mr. Browning's, "The Ring and the Book. The historians...
...Journal of Education has invited 5,000 subscribers to the Plebiscite to construct a body of English academicians. Alfred Tennyson heads the list, and his name is followed by those of Ruskin, Arnold, Browning, Froude, Swinburne, Freeman, Spencer and Black. These names are followed by those of novelists, including Shonthouse, Blackmore, McCarthy, McDonald, Reade, George Meredith and Wilkie Collins...
...Ruskin's last Oxford lecture was mainly devoted to a eulogy of Du Maurier's work in Punch...
...Fawcelt, the postmaster General of England, has been elected, over Mr. John Ruskin, as lord rector of the University of Glasgow...
According to Ruskin, an educated man ought to know these things: First, where he is-that is to say, what sort of a world he has got into; how large it is; what kind of creatures live in it, and how; what it is made of, and what may be made of it. Secondly, where he is going-that is to say, what chances or reports there are of any other world besides this; what seems to be the nature of that other world. Thirdly what he had best do under the circumstances-that is to say, what kind...