SECOND VOLUME OF “MODERN PAINTERS.”
Treating of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties. By a Graduate of Oxford. In one volume, imperial 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.
“We are prepared emphatically to declare, that this work is the most valuable contribution towards a proper view of painting, its purpose and means, that has come within our knowledge.”—Foreign Quarterly Review.
“A work distinguished by an enlightened style of criticism, new to English readers, and by the profound observation of nature displayed by the author.”—Dublin University Magazine.
“This is the production of a highly gifted mind, one who has evidently bestowed time and labour to obtain a practical knowledge of the fine arts, and who writes eloquently, feelingly, and fearlessly.”—Polytechnic Review.
“It has seldom been our lot to take up a work more admirably conceived and written than this beautiful and elaborate essay. To a perfect idea of the scope of the inquiry, and a mastery of all the technicalities required for its due treatment, the Graduate unites considerable metaphysical power, extent of philosophical and scientific knowledge, a clear and manly style of expression, and no inconsiderable command of humour and satire.”—Atlas.
“The Oxford Graduate is a bold revolutionist in art.... A very Luther in art-criticism.... He has asserted and established the claims of Landscape painting to a much higher rank than it hitherto enjoyed.... The second volume of this remarkable work rises above the first. Indeed, we question if any but a high order of mind will embrace the full grandeur of its design, or follow the masterly analysis by which its propositions are elucidated.”—English Gentleman.
“The author now comes forward with additional force, and, we must hope, with still higher effect, on the public taste.... He directs his attention in the present volume from the individual artists to the art itself.”—Britannia.
MR. JAMES’S NEW ROMANCE.
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