29 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 16

JOHN RUSKIN.

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—The " trumpet-call" may have been intended only for "young" artists (as Mr. Cook says in the Spectator of November 15th), but the world did not commonly so interpret the teaching; and that kind of study which Wilkie deprecated —"sitting sax months in front of a grozet buss "—became largely the result of it, study not necessarily tending to " mak' penters." Hence the "hampering" spoken of by your reviewer. Thus much may be said, surely, without the remotest thought of "throwing scorn upon Ruskin."—I am,

Sir, &c., ONE WHO KNEW AND LOVED HIM.