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does not read nicely; I want it put simply thus-Compare Iliad S 1 with Odyssey W 5-10-putting Sigma and Omega for numbers of books-and the lines: only I haven’t an Iliad to find the line. Can you find the Shout of Achilles from the wall, or can Mr. Williams?-and put the line-that in the Odyssey is all right-line 5 to 10.

Then, you will find a reference in chap. 6, § 1, note 14, which must be added.¹ Thus:-

15, p.-“The Flowers lost their light, the river its music.” Yet not all their light-nor all its music. Compare Modern Painters, Vol. II. Chap. .ss. .

Now this Chapter and ss. my good friend Mr. H. only can find for me; it is the Chapter headed-“Various Theories concerning Ideas of Beauty”-(by-the-by I am not quite sure if it be in first volume or second), and the paragraph is the beginning of the passage about association-the paragraph ending “wrath, ravage, and misery of man.”

Then Notes 14 and 15 have to be made 15, 16; and finally as Mr. Coleridge must not have it his own way at the end, would you add on this:-

Noble verse but erring thought: contrast George Herbert. ... [Quotation as in note on p. 271 above.]

That will do better for a finish. I am quite tired, dear Mr. H.: good-bye-and a thousand thanks to you and remembrances to all,

Ever yours,

J. RUSKIN.

2. TO G. SMITH²

GENEVA, June 5th (1849).

MY DEAR SIR,-I have seen with much pleasure the favourable notices of the Lamps in the London Journals; for, considering the way in which the book clashes with many wide interests and received opinions, I had not hoped for so kind a reception of it; but as none of the reviewers appear to have understood the purpose and value of the illustrations,³ I think it right that you at least should have it in your power to give some answer to any verbal objections that may be made to their apparent rudeness.

I have been a little too modest in the Preface-and had calculated too much on the reader’s discovery of what I ought to have told him; namely, that though indeed many portions of the plates on which I spent considerable time, have, owing to the softness of the steel, ended in “a blot,” yet, such as they are, they are by far the most sternly faithful records of the portions of architecture they represent which have ever yet been published; and I am

¹ [See ch. vi. § 1, p. 223.]

² [The late Mr. George Murray Smith, who at this time was assuming management of the publishing business of Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co. The letter is here reprinted from the privately printed volume, Letters upon Subjects of General Interest from John Ruskin to Various Correspondents, 1892, pp. 8-12. Its contents should be compared with Stones of Venice, vol. i. Appendix 8, where a similar defence of the original plates in The Seven Lamps is given.]

³ [See, however, the review cited above, p. xlv.]

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