Volume 25, Number 21 & 22 · January 25, 1979
The Return of Ruskin
By Diane Johnson
Ruskin's Venice
edited by Arnold Whittick
Whitney Library of Design, 325 pp., $12.95
Looking at Architecture with Ruskin
by John Unrau
University of Toronto Press, 180 pp., $15.00
John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye
by Robert Hewison
Princeton University Press, 228 pp., $15.00
Ruskin
by Quentin Bell
George Braziller, 164 pp., $8.95
The relation of a traveler to his guidebook is a sensitive one; an unsuitable choice can blight your expensive and brief visit to a distant city as surely as finding yourself there with an incompatible lover, or a fussy eater, or someone whose feet hurt. Anyone who has trudged across miles of strange streets to find himself looking at a dull municipal mural or museum that's shut has some intimation of the delicacy of this relation; not only must your guidebook have its facts straight, it must understand what you have come there for.
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