NEW Ennuozi.—Unto This Last. By John Ruskin. (Cassell and Co.
6d. net.)—The substance of this volume was first given to the public in the form of lectures. These appeared as articles in the Cornhill Magazine, where they made no small sensation, till the editor (Thackeray) declared that he could not insert more than one more. Ruskin published them in a separate shape, and they now form a volume in "Cassell's National Library," with an introduction by Mr. J. A. Hobson. Readers may well employ their time in seeing how far the world has come round to Ruskin's theory. One thing may be noted, how careless Ruskin was of exactness where he had a point to make. He naturally depreciates "business"; from his point of view it was an evil thing. It is, he says, "essentially restless, as is shown in the language of all nations, ereib.eie from ',Au', rrpligis from repilic, venire, vendre and venal from venio." All this is, of course, a figment.
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