I thought that it would be sufficient to study closely the two lectures by Ruskin in the notes that I have supplied.
Since Kings' Treasuries deals with the benefits of reading I have tried in turn to reflect upon the subject of Reading and it is these ideas that are wholly my own and are in no way Ruskinian, which I state here and oppose in advance those ideas of Ruskin's. To the extent that this preface in which there is very little mention of Ruskin, constitutes however a sort of indirect criticism of the work it precedes, and which for which I have reserved a closer study in the notes that can be found later on at the foot of almost every page. I would have had nothing more to say had I not wished to express once again here my gratitude to my friend Mlle Marie Nordlinger who in order to closely review this translation and render it less imperfect, had quite willingly interrupted her magnificent works of sculpture. I would have had nothing more to say about this Preface about which a delightful article by André Beunier has attributed, even before it was published in book form, an importance which it certainly does not merit.
If in the notes that can be found later on, at the foot of every page of Ruskin's text, I have attempted to study closely two lectures, to closely review this translation, to render it less imperfect, in this preface on the contrary [...]
I have merely attempted in this preface to reflect upon the subject treated by Ruskin in King' Treasuries (the benefits of reading). Thus if we find hardly any mention of Ruskin in these few pages, they nevertheless constitute a kind of indirect criticism of his doctrine. By exposing my own ideas I find myself opposing them in advance to his.
In this preface I have merely attempted to reflect upon the subject treated by Ruskin in King' Treasuries (the benefits of reading). So that these few pages in which we find hardly any mention of Ruskin, they already constitute a kind of indirect criticism of his doctrine. By exposing my own ideas I find myself thereby opposing them in advance to his.
As a direct commentary there would be enough in the words I put in [...]
I would also like to thank for all the advice that he was kind enough to supply me with M. Charles Newton Scott, the learned scholar to whom we are indebted for The Church and compassion for animals and The Epoch of Marie Antoinette, two works into which he has put all his learning and all his sensibility.
[...] to my friend Marie Nordlinger who, so much better occupied with her great works of sculpture into which she puts all her talents for beauty and emotion, has been kind enough [...]
[...] sculptress of any English artist, to whom we are indebted for her charming and powerful works, the plate of fruit, the funeral urn, who has been kind enough to interrupt her important works of sculpture [...]
Livres et manuscrits, Sotheby's, 24 May 2018, Lot 153.
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