30 JUNE 1894, Page 14

.Ruskin an Music. Edited by A. M. Wakefield. (George Allen.)

—Miss. Wakefield's interest in music, and her admiration for Mr. Ruskin, have led her to collect passages in his writings bearing on the subject, and to arrange them in a connected form. To cut across a writer's work with the clue of a subject that he treats incidentally, leads to a kind of book that cannot be criticised very seriously; it falls into the order of birthday anthologies. But it is a kind of book that gives pleasure to a good many people, and it is not uninteresting to have a section cut at an unexpected angle through the work of a great writer.