26 NOVEMBER 1927, Page 45

A BOOK OF RUSKIN. By E. M. Hewetson. (Nelson. 1s.

9d.)-Ruskin often seems to this generation something of a prig and a bore. But we have not done with Ruskin yet. A biography, and extracts from Praterita, Fors Clanigera, Modern Painters, &e., are given. Is the omission of " destin" from Malherbe's " Consolation " (p. 97) Ruskin's error ?