You need not fear for me on 'Langdale Pikes' after that." In September the second article appeared in _Fraser._ "Only a genius like Mr.Ruskin could have produced such hopeless rubbish," says a newspaper of the period.

Far worse than any newspaper criticism was the condemnation of Denmark Hill.

His father, whose eyes had glistened over early poems and prose eloquence, strongly disapproved of this heretical economy.

It was a bitter thing that his son should become prodigal of a hardly earned reputation, and be pointed at for a fool.

And it was intensely painful for a son "who had never given his father a pang that could be avoided," as old Mr.Ruskin had once written, to find his father, with one foot in the grave, turning against him.