With one exception, namely the last Paper in the Collection, which appeared in the _Fortnightly Review_, all these Essays were printed in the _St. James’s Gazette_ during the editorship of Mr. Greenwood. The Essay on “Architectural Styles” contains a summary of principles which I stated, some thirty years ago, in various Articles, chiefly in the _Edinburgh Review_. As this Essay now stands, I hope that readers, who have knowledge enough to enable them to judge, will find in it an example of the kind of criticism which I have advocated earlier in the volume. It is not true, though it has so often been asserted, that criticism is of no use or of little use to art. This notion prevails so wide…
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