[Bibliographical Note.-The four letters here given were reprinted in Arrows of the Chace, 1880, vol. i. pp. 85-107. Two later letters (1858), given in the same section of that book, are included, in this edition, in the volume containing Academy Notes.

The two letters of 1854 had already been reprinted (by the late Mr. Ernest Willett, with Ruskin’s permission) in 1876 in pamphlet form, with the following title-page:-

[Reprinted for Private Circulation Only.] | Letters to | “The Times” | On the Principal | Pre-Raphaelite | Pictures | in the | Exhibition of 1854 | From | The Author of “Modern Painters.” | 1876.

8vo, pp. ii. +9. There is no imprint, nor are there headlines. Issued sewn, without wrappers.

The former letter (that on “The Light of the World”) was also printed in 1876 on one side of a single 4to sheet, on the reverse of which was a letter headed: “The following interesting letter from a clergyman is a most complete interpretation of this beautiful allegory.”

The greater part of the same letter has also been reprinted on a double sheet (of the size of note-paper); in this form, it is given to visitors who go to see the picture in Keble College, Oxford. There is no date or imprint; the sheet is headed “ ‘The Light of the World,’ by Holman Hunt, R. A. [sic]. Bequeathed to Keble College by T. Combe, Esq., The University Press, Oxford.”

Both were again reprinted (by permission of Ruskin) in Notes on the Pictures of Mr. Holman, Hunt, Exhibited at the Rooms of the Fine Art Society, 1886, edited by A. Gordon Crawford (pseudonym of A. G. Wise). The letter on “The Light of the World” (with the omission of the last seven lines) was on pp. 15-19 of that pamphlet; that on “The Awakening Conscience,” pp. 2-5.

The letter on “The Light of the World” (with the omission of the last seven lines) was again reprinted in 1904 in connexion with the exhibition of the replica (see below, p. 331, n.). The reprint occupies pp. 6-11 of a small pamphlet with the following title-page: “‘The light of the World,’ by W. Holman Hunt, now exhibiting at the Fine Art Society’s, 148, New Bond Street, London.”

There are no various readings to record, except that in the third letter “Præ-Raphaelites” has here been altered to “Pre-Raphaelites.”]

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