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other to San Giorgio de’ Schiavoni,* will, I hope, be ready with the opening numbers of this book, which must depend somewhat on their collateral illustration; and what I find likely to be of service to the traveller in my old Stones of Venice is in course of re-publication, with further illustration of the complete works of Tintoret.¹ But this cannot be ready till the autumn; and what I have said of the mightiest of Venetian masters, in my lecture on his relation to Michael Angelo,² will be enough at present to enable the student to complete the range of his knowledge to the close of the story of St. Mark’s Rest.

* See now Chapters X.-XI. of this book.³

¹ [For particulars of the “Travellers’ Edition” of The Stones of Venice, issued in 1879-1881, see Vol. IX. pp. lvi.-lviii. The “further illustration of the complete works of Tintoret” was never written.]

² [See Vol. XXII. pp. 77 seq.]

³ [Note added by the publisher to the edition of 1894: see above, p. 197.]

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