Frederic Harrison; London and New York: Macmillan & Co. 1900.
3
Alluding to the quaint title under which these "Cornhill" essays afterwards appeared,–a title that hints at the gist of the work,–Mr. Ruskin's biographer tells us that the motto
1
Written by Mr. F.H. on Professor Ruskin's eightieth birthday (February 8, 1899).
2
"Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and other Literary Estimates," by Frederic Harrison; London and New York: Macmillan & Co. 1900.
3
Alluding to the quaint title under which these "Cornhill" essays afterwards appeared,–a title that hints at the gist of the work,–Mr. Ruskin's biographer tells us that the motto was taken from Christ's parable of the husbandman and the laborers: "Friend, I do thee no wrong. Didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way. I will give UNTO THIS LAST even as unto thee."–Matt. xx. 14.
