NOT A BACK NUMBER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 63, 11 September 1937, Page 26

NOT A BACK NUMBER

It is often asserted —especially with the rather • sweeping confidence of youth—that John Ruskin is today a back number, which is entirely forgotten; but such assertion is open to doubt. Additional to the vigorous Ruskin Society, a new association—the Friends of Brantwood—was formed a year ago with the object of uniting all lovers of Ruskin's work in caring for his home in the English Lake district. This society will shortly issue a volume consisting of over 500 hitherto unpublished letters of great importance, written by Ruskin to his mother.

As a contradiction to the claim that Buskin is a spent and forgotten force, a writer "in the "New York Times Book Review" says that the outstanding impression left by visitors —who go from all parts of , the world to visit Euskin's lakeside horne —is that his teachings are exercising an important influence on modern youth. And at the first annual meeting of the Friends of Brantwood, a speaker went so far as to say that every aspect of conventional political economy that Huskin had attacked is now in ruins, while many of his constructive proposals had been realised.