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Ruskin : Rossetti: Preraphaelitisin — Papers 1854 to 1862. (George Allen. 103.

6d.)—These letters and extracts from diaries have been arranged by Mr. W. M. Rossetti. who has supplied interesting notes wherever they were wanted. There are a number of D. G. Rossetti's letters, which have great charm from their directness and unconventionality. There is an interesting fragment of a diary by Madox Brown, with this shrewd remark in it :—" March 10 (1855). I had a letter from Rossetti, Thursday,

saying that Ruskin had bought all Miss Siddal's Guggum's') drawings, and said they beat Rossetti's own. This is like Ruskin, the incarnation of exaggeration."