3 JUNE 1905, Page 13

RUSKIN'S DRAWINGS.

[TO T/III EDITOR OF TIER SPEOTATOR."1

hia notice of the new edition of Ruskin's works in the Spectator of May 27th your reviewer expresses surprise that as Ruskin drew so well be did not draw more. The wonder is that in so crowded a life he should have produced so vast a number of drawings. At the Manchester Ruskin Exhibition last year three galleries were filled with examples of his work, and there are hundreds more scattered up and down England. Some of these also, such as the well-known drawing of the "Gneiss Rock," took months of hard work. Had he been an artist pure and simple, his output would have ranked as astonishing.—I am, Sir, 8co., A. F.