Summary of review by George Eliot, 'Art and Belles Lettres: Review of Modern Painters III', Westminster Review, April 1856.
George Eliot, writing in the Westminster
Review, describes Ruskin as a 'prophet
of realism' (see here), whose faults are
outweighed by his talents (see here) and
whose eloquence endows his rhetoric with uncommon powers of persuasion (see here).