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Ruskin the Prophet and other Centenary Studies. Edited by J.

Howard Whitehouse. (G. Allen and Unwin. 8s. 6d. net.)— These lectures and essays were written last year in connexion with the centenary of Ruskin's birth. Mr. Masefield's pleasant essay on Ruskin as the apostle of beauty and happiness opens the volume. Dr. Inge writes well on "Ruskin and Plato." Mr. Whitehouse gives some hitherto unpublished letters of Ruskin (1847.64) to his friend W. M. Macdonald, in one of whirl; he expounds the correct use of " shall " and " will." Mt. H. W. Nevinson recalls his memories of Ruskin, whom he heanl lecture at Oxford and whom he met in Switzerland in 1888. It is an interesting book.