No space is left here to mention in detail Ruskin's other works, but _Unto This Last_, _The Stones of Venice_, _Sesame and Lilies_ and _The Crown of Wild Olive_ may be commended as well worth careful reading. Also _Preterita_ is alive with noble passages, such as the pen-picture of the view from the Dale in the Alps, or of the Rhone below Geneva. Read also Ruskin's description of Turner's "Slave Ship" or the impressive passage on the mental slavery of the modern workman in the sixth chapter of the second volume of _The Stones of Venice_. Read these things and you will have no doubt of the genius of Ruskin or of his command of the finest impassioned prose in the English language. TENNYSON LEADS THE VICTORIAN WRITERS THE POET WHO VOICED THE ASPIRATIONS OF HIS AGE--"LOCKSLEY HALL," "IN MEMORIAM" AND "THE IDYLLS OF THE KING" AMONG HIS BEST WORKS. Of all the great English writers of the Victorian age it is probable that the next century will give the foremost place to Tennyson. Better than any other poet of his day, he stands as a type of the English people in obedience to law, in strong religious faith, in splendid imaginative force and in a certain unyielding cast of mind that made him bide his time during the dark years when he was bitterly criticized or coldly neglected. Tennyson had to the full the poet's temperament, but he had also a superb physique, which carried him into his eighty-fourth year. From a boy he was a lover of nature, and in nearly every poem that he wrote are found many proofs of his close observation in English woods and fields. Through a period of general skepticism he kept unimpaired his strong faith in God and in immortality that lends so much force to his best verse. [Illustration: ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON AFTER AN ENGRAVING BY G.J. STODART FROM A PHOTOGRAPH BY J. MAYALL] Tennyson's genius found its natural expression in verse, and it is his distinction that while he explored many realms of thought he was always clear and always musical. Browning had more passion, but it was the misfortune of the author of _The Ring and the Book_ that he could not refrain from a cramped and obscure style of verse that makes much of his work very hard reading. Many Browning societies have been formed to study the works of the poet whom they are proud to call master; but Tennyson needs no societies, as the man in the street and the woman whose soul is troubled can understand every line he has written. Nor is Tennyson lacking in passion, as any one may see by reading _Locksley Hall_ or _Maud_.