Books: The Case of Poor J.R.

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"We shall at least have John all to ourselves," said old father Ruskin happily. "I would rather be your Mother," old Mts. Ruskin assured her son, "than the mother of the greatest of Kings or Heroes past or present." "They have got him now," said Painter Millais (who married Effie a year later) , "and will keep on either side of him like the two outside horses in the Edinburgh omnibuses, who always suggested . . . that they were taking [the middle horse] to the station-house—let us hope that this may not be realized in the case of poor J.R."

Ruskin died insane in 1900. Effie had died two years before, happy mother of eight children.