Ruskin responded to this sympathetic review from Dr. John Brown, published in the North British Review (See Works, 36.66). Brown interpreted the failure of the larger reviews to notice Modern Painters as an indication of the low standard of public taste (see here), while welcoming the spiritual emphasis of Ruskin's writing as an antidote to the quotidian demands of nineteenth-century life (see here). In order to demonstrate the principles of Modern Painters I to his readers, Brown quoted several long passages from the work (see here). The criticism of Ruskin's style (see here), does not reflect Brown's opinion, but, as Ruskin notes in a letter to Brown, was the result of editorial intervention (See Works, 36.67).