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This issue of The Studio features articles on John Ruskin as an artist and art critic, with fourteen illustrations. It also covers the first exhibition of the "Société Nouvelle de Peintres et de Sculpteurs" with forty-four illustrations, and the second part of an article on the art of John S. Sargent, R.A., with fourteen illustrations. The issue includes studio-talk from correspondents in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Melbourne, Brussels, and Munich, as well as reviews and details of "The Studio" prize competitions.