Lockhart employed him to write for the _Quarterly Review_.
Lockhart was a person of great interest for young Ruskin, who worshipped Scott; and Lockhart's daughter, even without her personal charm, would have attracted him as the actual grandchild of the great Sir Walter.

It was for her sake, he says, rather than for the honour of writing in the famous _Quarterly_, that he undertook to review Lord Lindsay's "Christian Art." He was known to be a suitor for Miss Lockhart's hand.

His father, in view of the success he desired, had been in February looking out for a house in the Lake District; hoping, no doubt, to see him settled there as a sort of successor to Wordsworth and Christopher North.

In March, John Ruskin betook himself to the Salutation at Ambleside, with his constant attendant and amanuensis George, for quiet after a tiring winter in London society, and for his new labour of reviewing.

But he did not find himself so fond of the Lakes as of old.