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RUSKIN DISAPPROVES 
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abode. I wished yesterday Guy were himself 
again, and would blow up both Houses of Parlia- 
ment, and all the West End with them ; then 
there might be a chance for the east, and for the 
Sun and Aurora again. 
' Ever yours affectionately, 
‘ J. Ruskin. 
‘ 1 can write steadily still when I am not in a 
rage — but that’s not often.’ 
‘ I dine with Paget,’ Owen writes® {March 23, 
1 88 1 ), ‘ the day after to-morrow to meet T ennyson. 
I fear the poet will miss his pet pipe.’ In another 
letter (March 27) he gives a description of some 
of the conversation, and continues : ‘ When the 
ladies retired our host benevolently sent for the 
Pipe ; we accompanied, with mild cigarettes, 
the Poet, who then began to unroll (a hedgehog 
simile). But in the drawing-room he was “ very 
good,” and read to us his “ Maud ” — I think his 
favourite.’ 
In the Grosvenor Gallery of 1881 Professor 
Owen’s portrait appeared, painted by Mr. Holman 
Hunt. The ‘ Times,’ in speaking of this portrait, 
says (May 2) : ‘ Perhaps the finest portrait in the 
gallery among so many that are very fine is the 
“ Professor Owen ” of Mr. Holman Hunt. This 
is a work which is full of Mr. Hunt s peculiarities 
of colour. The flesh of the face is that curious 
^ To Dr. Pearson Langshaw.. 
