sentences:  E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn edited the monumental 39-volume "Library Edition" of Ruskin's "Works", the last volume of which, an index, attempts to demonstrate the complex interconnectedness of Ruskin's thought.They all acted together to guard, and even control, Ruskin's public and personal reputation.The centenary of Ruskin's birth was keenly celebrated in 1919, but his reputation was already in decline and sank further in the fifty years that followed.