Excerpt from Ruskin: A Study in Personality The following volume consists of seven lectures on the life and work of Ruskin, delivered in the Hall of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in the Michaelmas term of 1910. I had intended vaguely to recast them in a more formal shape; not because they were not carefully compiled and composed, but because they were written as lectures to be heard, and not as a book to be read. But I found on reflection that this would entail rewriting the whole book on an entirely different scheme. Nor indeed do I think that another small biography of Ruskin is re quired though a great and full biography of him is needed, and is being written, I understand, by Mr. E. T. Cook, the editor of the large standard series Of Ruskin's complete works. The situation is, Of course, at present somewhat complicated by nearness of View and considerations of personal intimacies; but the time is not far Off when we shall be able to realise what the ultimate effect of his work and message has been upon the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.