This review of Modern Painters III by John Skelton writing in Fraser's Magazine provides an insight into the changing public perception of Ruskin. The more severe attitude of the critic and his description of Ruskin 's character as a combination of paradoxes (see here) is in marked contrast to the earlier unquestioning enthusiasm of Fraser's for his writing (see Fraser's Magazine, March 1846). Skelton's desire to rescue Tennyson from an association with 'the emotional school' of poets (see here) (see here) is perhaps related to the reference to Ruskin's 'incompleteness' (see here). The parallel drawn between Ruskin and Luther not only echoes a similar comparison made by the Art Journal in 1853, but suggests that Ruskin was seen as a specifically Protestant art critic (see here).