They always smile when they mean pluck." The Newdigate for 1838, for all his care and pains, was won by Dart.

He was, at any rate, beaten by a friend, and with a poem which his own honourable sympathy and assistance had helped to perfect.
Another trifling incident lets us get a glimpse of the family life of our young poet.

The Queen's coronation in June, 1838, was a great event to all the world, and Mr.Ruskin was anxious for his son to see it.

Much correspondence ensued between the parents, arranging everything for him, as they always did--which of the available tickets should be accepted, and whether he could stand the fatigue of the long waiting, and so forth.

Mrs.Ruskin did not like the notion of her boy sitting perched on rickety scaffolding at dizzy altitudes in the Abbey.