It is curious that you should post this, for Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad shows signs of reacting against Ruskin's preference for the pre-Raphaelites. And I s

It is curious that you should post this, for Mark Twain in Innocents Abroad shows signs of reacting against Ruskin's preference for the pre-Raphaelites. And I suspect Lewis Carroll of taking Ruskin at a bit less than the standard valuation, given the lines from "Hiawatha's Photographing": Next the Son, the Stunning-Cantab: He suggested curves of beauty, Curves pervading all his figure, Which the eye might follow onward, Till they centered in the breast-pin, Centered in the golden breast-pin. He had learnt it all from Ruskin (Author of 'The Stones of Venice,' 'Seven Lamps of Architecture,' 'Modern Painters,' and some others); And perhaps he had not fully Understood his author's meaning; But, whatever was the reason All was fruitless, as the picture Ended in an utter failure.