The best lives are:
COLLINGWOOD, W.G. The Life and Work of John Ruskin Houghton Mifflin Company, 1893. (2 vols.) The standard biography.
HARRISON, P. John Ruskin (English Men of Letters). The Macmillan Company, 1902. A short and readable biography.
Footnotes
[[1]] Præterita. He was born February 8, 1819.
[[2]] Ruskin himself quotes a not very brilliant specimen in Modern Painters, III, in "Moral of Landscape."
[[3]] Præterita, § 53.
[[4]] The Mystery of Life.
[[5]] See Harrison's Life, p. 111. Cf. the opening of The Mystery of Life.