8 SEPTEMBER 1900, Page 24

A Biographical Sketch of John Ruskin. By R. Ed. Pengelly.

(A. Melrose. ls.)—This is one of the books by which an expected demand is always anticipated. We have no complaint to make of it. It appears to be reasonably well done. But we advise all who wish-to-read-about Ru.skin's life. to waiVtill the real biography, written after access to all available materials, has appeared.