WithTime and Tide Ruskin's writing on economics ceased for a while. He never put his economic work, either on its critical or on its constructive side, into connected form. He wrote by snatches; and he wrote in fierce indignation. Also he wrote allusively, giving rein to his fancy in following up any clue in literature or mythology which seemed suggestive of his conclusions. One can sympathise with the City man who is said to have given up Euskin's essays in despair, on finding that, according to this new counsellor, the principles of sound economics required a familiarity with Scylla, Charybdis, Circe, the “ Gran Nemico ” of Dante, and Spenser's Plutus. Euskin himself was aware, in halfmocking humility, of the extent to which his writing fell short (if such be the case) of the calm and orderly style of other economists.