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.