“Mr. Ruskin’s book bears so unmistakeably the marks of keen and accurate observation, of a true and subtle judgment and refined sense of beauty, joined with so much earnestness, so noble a sense of the purposes and business of art, and such a command of rich and glowing language, that it cannot but tell powerfully in producing a more religious view of the uses of architecture, and a deeper insight into its artistic principles.”--_Guardian._ _Lectures on Architecture and Painting._ _With Fourteen Cuts, drawn by the Author. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Price 8s. 6d. cloth._ “Mr. Ruskin’s lectures--eloquent, graphic, and impassioned--exposing and ridiculing some of the vices of our present system of building, and exciting his hearers by strong motives of duty and pleasure to attend to architecture--are very successful.”--_Economist._ “We conceive it to be impossible that any intelligent persons could listen to the lectures, however they might differ from the judgments asserted, and from the general propositions laid down, without an elevating influence and an aroused enthusiasm.”--_Spectator._ * * * * * _A Portrait of John Ruskin, Esq., Engraved by_ F. HOLL, _from a Drawing by_ GEORGE RICHMOND. _Prints, One Guinea; India Proofs, Two Guineas._ RECENT WORKS. _Sermons._ By the late REV. FRED. W. ROBERTSON, A.M., Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton. FIRST SERIES--_Fourth Edition, Post 8vo, price 9s. cloth._ SECOND SERIES--_Fourth Edition, price 9s. cloth._ THIRD SERIES--_Second Edition, Post 8vo, with Portrait, price 9s. cloth._ “Very beautiful in feeling and occasionally striking and forcible in conception to a remarkable degree.”--_Guardian._ “Mr. Robertson, of Brighton, is a name familiar to most of us, and honoured by all to whom it is familiar.”--_Globe._ “These sermons are full of thought and beauty. There is not a sermon in the series that does not furnish evidence of originality without extravagance, of discrimination without tediousness, and of piety without cant or conventionalism.”--_British Quarterly._ _Esmond._ By W. M. THACKERAY, Esq. _A New Edition in One Volume, Crown 8vo, price 6s. cloth._ “Mr. Thackeray has selected for his hero a very noble type of the cavalier softening into the man of the eighteenth century, and for his heroine one of the sweetest women that ever breathed from canvas or from book since Raffaelle painted and Shakspeare wrote.”--_Spectator._ “Apart from its special merits “Esmond” must be read just now as an introduction to “The Virginians.” It is quite impossible fully to understand and enjoy the latter story without a knowledge of “Esmond.” The new tale is in the strictest sense the sequel of the old, not only introducing the same characters, but continuing their history at a later period.”--_Leader._