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    baker daughter ' s wife , so , the please othe yo r a tanner ; one 's ; and my I au don nts ' t know a much ri more about my family -y except — ' that there -- used

    j ^ j ^^ ^ ^_ -j be g ^ h-rf » a ^^ ^ gre ^^ ^^ v e *^ n ^^ grocer " » - — »^ w ^ » ^— o f »— - ^ the ^ f , nam — — e ^ - ' — in a s mal — l shop ---near A the Crystal -iw of - —* ^ Mr — - Palace 1 ^ . W ^ Ruskin ^ — — -V ^ / ¦ m — — — readers — — — — _* - — m ha — ve ^^^^ propos g ^ ^^ *^ ^^ , your ^ may ^

    noticed a letter of recent date in the Tall Mall Gazette , in which Mr . Uuskin ' s solicitors say that letters they f ha ¦ / and ve discovered that they had * a succeeded m m ma - -PI nufactory H I in tracing of Ruskin and

    withdrawing simi ^^ ^^^ p ^^ ^^ X l e P *^ H ep ^**^ istles ™ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ froinr . They ^^ ^^^~ ^ circulation " - know ^^ . ^^ — , _~^ of - ^ - more about — ^ ' tha 80 n more " — 280 - ' - y being J fac — - in the hands of * certain second-hand booksellers in

    and near the Strand / who refuse to deliver up the forgeries . Autograph-hunters please take a note of this warning .

    I happen to have before me a bundle of genuine Ruskin letters , written many years ago to a friend of my own , a young artist who was on intimate

    terms with the author of ' Modern Painters / Here is an extract , taken at random , from one of them : — * You areI seestill under the impression that

    people can become , , great painters , or great anyl thing ittle m else ore , b y r app efull lication y W you / will . If see you this read denied my in books every a

    ^^ m ^^ ^ ^ ^^ - . — ^— v — — — - — — ^ - — — — — " ~ - — —r m - ~ - - — — — — ^ j other ' A p great age nearl painter y . or a great man is born greatborn for ever . No other person can ever approach

    or liken himself in the slightest degree to him . A hi man ppopotamus is born a p aint you er as ca n no ppo more potamus make is yourself born a

    ^ ^ ^^ ^^ «^^ p h ^ than ^^^ r H ^^ r ^^^» ^^ B ^^ 0 ^ you & ^ ^^^^^* ^^^^ . ^» can , ^ M ^^^^^ ^^^^ make ^^^^™ J ^^^ ^^ yourself ^^ ¦ ^ — ¦ — a - ^^^^ - ^^ g ^^ r iraffe »^» ™ — ^ ^^ . ^^ - ^ — ~— Moreover ^ ^^ ~^ ^^ ^^— — ^— ™ - ^ , a him great than man other ' s work peo al ple wa ' s ys so tells tha more t tho in olde advancing r other

    people are , the further they , are off from the great men Chalon •^^^^ ^ bdfew ^^^ . w »^ ^*¦ ^ v A ^ like ™ ^ m ^»^ little ™ b ¦ infant ^^ ^—^— ¦ bab — Michael y is ¦— —— ~ - —~~ very - ^—^ —— - Angelo like ^ m ^ m — — a ^ . big When ~ bab y— they ~^ " infant " - ^ m are — ' —

    each seventy years old , the difference is infinite . I don ' t know what you are ; nor can you yourself knowtill you ¦ give up wishing to be . what you are

    not _^^ ^^^ H - ^^ . , — All ^^ * w ^^ ^^ work ¦ M ^ - ¦ - may ^^^^ " be ma — ~ - ~— ~ de t o bene — — fi t you - ^ , W if you — ~~ do it wisely . All work will injure you , if you strive to do it egotistically . Your wood drawing may be

    made most beneficial to you , if you just try to bring out all the virtues of the wood , instead of the virtues of—yourself .

    ' The best thing you can at present think of is m effect aking with your few work touches pay—that . You is to say have , getting got into much a

    cramped and minute way of work , and should study coarseness . The drawing of you made for was uselessly fine . A lovely drawing , but nobody

    could have cut it at the required cost . Have you my pamphlet on Pre-Raphaelitism ? 'In haste , yours affectionately , J . R /

    The postscript to the letter shows that it was not only good advice ( in most cases a cheap commodity ) that Mr . Ruskin offered to his friend—for it runs :

    * I shall trust to you then not to be in want of money without letting me know . ' Few save those who have benefited by his bounty are aware how

    generous Mr . Ruskin has ever been to struggling talent . One of the most interesting books now in the

    press in Edinburgh is the Memoirs of Sir Robert Christison , to be published by Messrs . Black wood & Sons »» - ¦• Edited bthe late fc # Professor ' s sons , the MRfl

    ^ work ^ 0 T *^ > V will PS" . i « be m ^* H <» > J a ^^^»^ H pleasan ™^ y _/ ¦ - /• - *^ ' t i ^«» nsi » % ^ ght « M * A VAVWMVM into the > i ^ ' " life * ^ - ^ t * - * H- * 1 of a ¦' . fflflli inan 'H-. ' who was ¦ ¦ regarded ¦ as the beau idiaZ of profes * - .. _

    fi sional gure in chivalry Edinburg , and h for society half . a During century that was time a notahl ther « * were were few tew causes causes celkbres celebres with with a charge p . Wkcva of ^ p poisonin ^ « _ . .

    and as in He which in was it the was engaged tha famous he Professor who in poisoning the did Burke the not case tak and of e round Hare a Madeline prominent trial the , as Smith pkef well Palmer put rope neei of

    Calmer , , the the Ku Rusrelev geley poisoner poisoner . , when -wVifln the th * wit - ^ u n ^ --he speciall for gave the y Crown his comp evidence limented had broken in him this down on important the . manner Lord trial Campbell in \ rhich esses The

    fessor Memoirs ' s wonderful will , it is athletic to be hoped feats , as touch a student on the . Pro for - ibert demon * with the

    S as for Ro pedestriani j was sm a ' he once did the ¦** distance gloves / from and

    . «« — - ~ . wuuuv , c ; ij . "om less tweD the ^ I- * «^ College # ty startlin «/ '^^ - five I 1 . A . J . B . minutes gate . M ^ BA . ^ - J ^ . to ^ - » ! the J . Lk In middle top ^ . — — - ^ of _ ~ life — occasions Arthur - . ^^^ mw he showed W ' s Seat «_ ¥ ^ » no | JII in

    la house nouse wn in a ac t M ivi front g illbank inoanK prowess of , , his where wnere on friend many once once he ne Professor pitted pitted himself him on Syme « wlf the ' s

    to run a hundred yards with another man on his double back innin , against the - b distance Professor inch and — unencum Douglas hal f b > w ere v » Macl . 'WSA d aft ) JJ , aga ^ Sir 14 n R * ( doing obert \ J UC 1 U

    w octogena g rian y an walked twice a to the . top In of Ben er years Voirlich the in virtues pursuance - - of - the - of cuca _____ his leaf __ exp . _ . erimen His t s tudents as ¦ to the who 9 sustaining cherish ¦ M f « J

    the awa his -- — - — memor Memoirs i ted by y the , will — an — d lar look with -- ge ^^ — ci - forward no rcle - - less -- — who " — eagerness - ^ to - ^ — enjoyed _ - — the - *^ » ** m appearance * - will the ^ . ^ \^ they m friend ^ _ \ J be OXi of

    shi _ — p of the — y gen . —_ — ial — — _ Professor _ — - _— - __* ^ ^ _ of * * _^ Materia _ ^ - ^^ ^^ - ^ " ^___ f ^^ Modiea ^^ ^^ t * ^^ a ^ . y ^ ^ » _^ work _ _ --- Two - and of our fulfil - younger ling the publishers hig ^ h pro ¦ are mise doing - ^_« they ~ - excellent showed

    on star _ , ting bus . _— — iness - — y j . Mr — ___ . William ^^^ _ Y— ^— ^— ^^ m ^ " Brown * - >^ -- _* , Princes k ^ ^^ ^^ « « >^ ^^^ of Street scarce , has historical issued a w number orkswh of ich well have -edited been reprints rapidly

    taken up . This is notably , the case with the limited reprints ^ fa —— ' ' —» ¦ ¦—_ vo w ~^^~ urite ^^^ " ^^ ^^ ~¦ ^ of a —i books ^ resort ^ b —m ^ ^—^ v —^^ ^^^ relatin —^ w of - ^^ ^—— . the —^ m ^ g ^ ^^ ~^^^ to tourist ^^ ^ our ^ r ~ ir ^ V ^ . ^ ^» - ^ i * * ^—^ Ultima , H the ^— ' ^—~^* sportsman " ^ ¦ Thule —^ ^^ i - ^ ^ —^ / ^— ^^ ^ so ^^^— , w

    and the antiquary ; and encouraged by the success on of V ^ & A his Orkney ^ m ^ *• »» editions fc * «/ V and ^» fc of Shetland - — ' ¦ Wallace »• ^ - ' »^ J ^» •* _ L ^ ^*» , * , Mr - B ~ ~ ~ rand ~ . Brown ^&< ¦ r , v and ^ » »— F is <¦ ¦** ea abou ^ ' s -w ¦— work . — t —¦ to — — s

    re an print d Authenti a curious c Account old book of , the entitled Greatest * An White Exact Herring Fishery in Scotland , carried on yearly in the Island of Zetland' The writwas John ¦

    1 / 11 O XDlClUU \ J 1 _ LiCT _ i . rlXX _ L . . JLUO WXIlt er / X m » " •» - » - — and n Camp .-nri as us bell Vj he pi , author resi -ri-sirl ded Af ! of on rkti 'Lives the t / ho island ial of the . nrl British for fnr five fivfl Admirals years vearS . , Und and , '

    and took doings accurate of no the tes Shetlanders in his quaint t his way work of the is of say con ing -

    UUU siderab UV l IUga e interes VI- KILIU t , and K ^ JL— t - - certainl JLCbU _ , _< i . 0 y , * worth !!¦> i » v ^ republishing »»» - ~ . Some k . n _» mo of ui his ilia xav facts iLO regarding jo . ^ cm-tiii ^ the uiio uuuw Shetland >«"" Isles are #

    as c O r rkne e startling dulous ys , ol an as d d those su they rgeon of are te Fea l c ur about us ious , * in the enou the cat cat neig gh , Island wiu will hbouring for not tho ot

    Enh Enhallow allow . it it . is is well well known known that tnat a a »^ , live . The Liiese these , experiment creatures Lui hath ashore uuio been often this * tried island , by ,

    but p short snort puLCiug utting they nme time always . . Rats xvats crea . died will win es in not juui u » ^ convulsions live n > o upon u in ju ^^ u the ^»»« , in » Island — . « a - ver ot y , therein tne

    memory memory Eday , and 01 of none man man . . of Some th em 0 years yo was * % io ever ago «* g ^ , » a seen ship ai The ^ r laden rats , witn wun

    wheat was wrecked on this island . , b which ut all the of them ship swarmed died in the t , im sight d m ediatel of v » the w y swam inhabitants asnore . ,

    out an 01 inem aieo . in . uo ^ - - — - . tion Not tiun much of creation creni opportunity / iuu ! for a Whittington in this ¦ ' por-

    JJ . . Pentland The Pe ux ntla other nd . who who publisher : is is issuing issuing I refer a a to aori series is ^ Mr — of . Yom - spien * . „

    famous iamous didly illustrated house noust ? , of 01 u Churchill medical iiurcauu works cannot wuuwm , surpass « which ^ , eyroMa wouu ru

    head ' s * Practical Pathology' has deservedly into second editionTU ^ kiB ^ I ^ :

    jn seen 3 erted a in w on hich coiourea « coloured «» _ of ncuuj the lithograp 5 Ut ira . tcr ^ hic res " * » H « ' » thert £ " ^ „

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), July 1, 1885, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01071885/page/4/