+ – Nation. 82: 415. My. 17, ’06. 550w.
“Thoughtful readers will acknowledge this to be a work of rare merit. A clarifying and a stimulating work it is, critical and widely informing.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 43. My. 3, ’06. 310w.
“It is comprehensive, capable, and always correct, where accuracy is possible.”
+ + Pub. Opin. 40: 710. Je. 9, ’06. 130w.
Hunt, W. Holman. Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. 2v. **$10. Macmillan.
“This volume is uniform with the “Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones,” and is devoted to a school that did more than any other to restore life and vitality and meaning to English art during the last century.” “This book has a threefold interest—historical, artistic, and human. Mr. Holman Hunt, as every one knows, was one of the original members of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.... He is able to tell the story of the beginning and early struggles of the most important movement in modern English painting more fully than it has ever been told before. He is also able to give us a very clear and concise account of the intentions of that movement, and of the state of things which it is proposed to reform.” (Lond. Times.)
“Mr. Hunt has stated his views with a certain literary grace that is pleasant to find: he has taken his own part with a great vigour and has said trenchant things with a refreshing incisiveness.” Ford Madox Hueffer.
+ + – Acad. 69: 1290. D. 9, ’05. 1390w.