Early in January Mr.J.J.Ruskin called on William Hunt and found him feeble: "I like the little Elshie," he says, nicknaming him after the Black Dwarf, for Hunt was somewhat deformed: "He is softened and humanized.

There is a gentleness and a greater _bonhomie_--less reserve.

I had sent him 'Pre-Raphaelitism.' He had marked it very much with pencil.

He greatly likes your notice of people not keeping to their last.

So many clever artists, he says, have been ruined by not acting on your principles.