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General Literature

Collingwood. JOHN RUSKIN: His Life and Work. By
W. G. CoLtincwoop, M.A., late Scholar of University College,
Oxford, Author of the ‘Art Teaching of John Ruskin,’ Editor of
Mr. Ruskin’s Poems. 2 vols. 8v0. 325. Second Edition.

This important work is written by Mr. Collingwood, who has been for some years
Mr. Ruskin’s private secretary, and who has had unique advantages in obtaining
materials for this book from Mr. Ruskin himself and from his friends. It contains
alarge amount of new matter, and of letters which have never been published,
and is, in fact, a full and authoritative biography of Mr. Ruskin. The book
contains numerous portraits of Mr. Ruskin, including a coloured one from a
water-colour portrait by himself, and also 13 sketches, never before published, by
Mr. Ruskin and Mr. Arthur Severn. A bibliography is added.

“No more magnificent volumes have been published for a long time. . . .’-- Times.

‘This most lovingly written and most profoundly interesting book.’—Daily News.

‘It is long since we have had a biography with such varied delights of substance
and of form. Such a book is a pleasure for the day, and a joy for ever.’—Daily
Chronicle.

‘Mr. Ruskin could not well have been more fortunate in his biographer.’— Globe.

‘A noble monument of a noble subject. One of the most beautiful books about one
of the noblest lives of our century.’—Glasgow Herald.

Gladstone. THE SPEECHES AND PUBLIC ADDRESSES
OF THE RT. HON. W. E, GLADSTONE, M.P. With Notes
and Introductions. Edited by A. W. Hutton, M.A. (Librarian of
the Gladstone Library), and H. J. Conzn, M.A, With Portraits,
8vo. Vols. 1X. and X. 12s. 6d. each.

Clark Russell. THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL LORD COL-
LINGWOOD. By W. CrLark Russet, Author of ‘The Wreck
of the Grosvenor.’ With Illustrations by F. BRANGWYN. Second
Edition. Crown 8vo. 65.

A really good book.'—Saturday Review.
*A most excellent and wholesome book, which we should like to see in the hands of
every boy in the country.’—S#. James's Gazette.

Clark. THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD: Their History and
their Traditions. By Members of the University. Edited by A.
Ciark, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Lincoln College. 8v0. 125, 6d.

Whether the reader approaches the book as a patriotic member of a college, as an
antiquary, or as a student of the organic growth of college foundation, it will amply
reward his attention.’—77es.

‘A delightful book, learned and lively.’—Academy.
‘A work which will certainly be appealed to for many years as the standard book on
the Colleges of Oxford.'—A theneum.