The Craftsman - November 1901

The Craftsman - November 1901.
John Ruskin - A word regarding his life and public service.

Contents

• Foreword.
• John Ruskin: A word regarding his life and public service.
• The Rise and Decadence of the Craftsman - An Historical Note.
• "Back to the Soil".
• Quotations from Ruskin.
• Time's Changes in the Destinies of Art.
• Ruskin's Work.
• "The Land in Decay".
• The Seven Lamps.
• Utility, Simplicity, Beauty.
• Enthusiasm Versus Apathy.

The articles written by Irene Sargent.

¶ Many lovers of Ruskin will doubtless recognize, in the cover of the present number of "The Craftsman", a copy of a much prized possession of the great art-critic. The design is derived from an illuminated missal executed in the latter half of the fourteenth century, for the Countess Yolande de Flandres. It gave the text for a lecture devoted to the treatment of plant-forms, and it was regarded by Ruskin as a drawing of great beauty. It is here reproduced because of its associations; just as the cover of the October number represented the "Daisy tile pattern", which was one of the earliest and most effective among the designs of William Morris.

Sideboard from the dining room of Mr. Gustave Stickley; nut-brown fumed oak, With copper hinges.