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Prejudices against the love of Nature,

Love of Nature associated with wilfulness and faithlessness,.

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PREFACE.

A PREFACE need not, as a matter of course, be an apology. Yet, an apology would be offered for "Selections" from Ruskin's Works, were those valuable works accessible to readers in general. Being voluminous and expensive, they are beyond the means of many who could appreciate and highly enjoy them. Moreover, some of the topics discussed are merely local (English), and not specially interesting to the American public. A rich field, however, remains, from which these selections have been carefully culled, and methodically arranged to form a book complete in itself. For the choice and arrangement alone, is the Editor responsible; the Author speaks for himself.

L. C. T.

PRINCETON, N. J

NOTICE

OF

LIBRARY

ILLINOIS

JOHN RUSKIN AND HIS WORKS.

ALTHOUGH novelty is generally a source of pleasure, yet what is new sometimes meets with opposition, merely because it is

new.

About twenty years ago a book appeared in London, entitled, "Modern Painters: By a Graduate of Oxford;" the main object of which was, to vindicate the reputation of the landscape-painter Turner, whose pictures had been ruthlessly assailed by the Reviewers.

The author confesses that the book originated "in indignation at the shallow and false criticism of the periodicals of the day on the works of the great living artist."

And who was the presumptuous "Graduate," who thus threw down the gauntlet, and defied the mighty host of Reviewers? A young man unknown to fame! A mere fledgeling from the University!

Yet in his book there was a bold originality, an uncom promising independence, quite startling to the lovers of the

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