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Lectures on Architecture and Painting. By John Ruskin, LL.D. New

edition. (G. Allen, Orpington.)—This new edition of lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1853, has, we think, been printed without alteration. Mr. Ruskin sometimes modifies his judg- ments, which, indeed, it has been his custom to deliver with con- siderable vehemence. But if they are not always infallible, they are, without doubt, always instructive, not least so when time-has, it may be, partially reversed them. In this volume, for instance, we read with special interest what the lecturer had to say, now nearly forty years ago, about the Pre-Raphaelites.