Part 12: 'Ruskin in the 1850s': 19. FROM AN UNSIGNED ARTICLE ENTITLED JOHN RUSKIN, 'ECLECTIC MAGAZINE' (NEW YORK).

A critical essay on the works of John Ruskin from "Eclectic Magazine," January 1854, volume 31, likely by Peter Bayne, is presented, published in "John Ruskin," edited by J. L. Bradley. Bayne admires Ruskin's appreciation of beauty in the volumes of his "Modern Painters." Bayne criticizes Ruskin's political and religious writings, objecting in particular to the socialist leanings prominent in "The Stones of Venice."