Chapter 25 TIME AND TIDE (1867)

The series of letters published as "Time and Tide by Weare and Tyne" were addressed13 to Thomas Dixon, a working cork-cutter of Sunderland, whose portrait by Professor Legros is familiar to visitors at the South Kensington Museum. He was one of those thoughtful, self-educated working men in whom, as a class, Ruskin had been taking a deep interest f