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Whate'er is good to wish, ask that of heaven, Pray to be perfect, though material leaven But if for any wish thou darest not pray, For Friends' Intelligencer. true welfare of their country, and aware of its peculiar : dangers, would find in John Ruskin's teaching a gospel of especial value to them in their social efforts—enough . needed truly in commercial England, but perhaps even more to the point in the business portions of the United States. - . Not that everything that Ruskin has written has been even approximately true or wise. utterances are lacking in that finely balanced modera- : tion which ought to be one of the results of University | the loneliness of his life. “ My dear friends, Mr. and training. Measured statement is not one of his achievements. We do not meet in his works that convincing gravity and balance of judgment which are so rarely found combined with prophetic insight and the burning heart. These latter, united to a marvellous power of language, are John Ruskin's gifts for the race, and we cannot do better than be grateful for them, and ourselves apply that discriminating reserve of caution which is a much commoner gift. kindliness and cordial greeting. With these reservations, I venture to write a few papers for the INTELLIGENCER about a man to whom I owe Some of the most precious gifts that any one can receive from another, and whom I, along with thousands of his readers, have learned to love as a friend. We wil begin with a visit which I once had the honor of paying to John Ruskin at his home at Coniston in | that “Lake District" of Northern England, which is a home-land to me, and full of literary interest to us all. Near the parsonage at Keswick where Frederick Myers worked still stands the old-fashioned house wherice Southey looked out on Skiddaw; the vales of | Grasmere and Rydal are consecrated as the home of | Wordsworth even by those who forget the Coleridges and Thomas de Quincey, and under the hillsides about | there nestle the homes of Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Fletcher, of William Edward Forster, and his father in-law, Dr. Arnold. There is a consciousness of being Brantwood, when Ruskin bqught it, was an old - * | plain house, among the woods which fringe Coniston Water. A country road with no house on it for four miles in one direction (a wonderful thing in England), runs at the foot of the garden between the house and the lake. Across the water stands the mountain called the Old Man, with rows of cottages at its base, and to - -, - - - - - | piece of architectural patchwork, having been greatly Most of his enlarged at the back and the higher side to accommodate a family of cousins who live with him and dispel Mrs. Severn,” he told us, “find this place so good for their children, that this has been built for them, and now I consider the house more theirs than mine; only this little bit of it you see I use myself.” (For Mrs. Severn, “Joan,” who has taken the woman's part for many years in Mr. Ruskin's home, see “Joanna's Care,” in “Preterita.”) We were a large company, and though we had been invited I felt ashamed of |