The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (June issue)

The sixth issue of The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine contains only five entries: an essay by Bernard Cracroft on Thackeray and Charlotte Bronte, the third installment of Lushington’s essay on Carlyle, Burne-Jones’s defense of Ruskin, Heeley’s review of Froude’s History of England, and a poem by Fulford. It is the only issue that does not contain any prose fiction.

William Michael Rossetti claims that his brother, Dante Gabriel, first mentioned Burne-Jones in June of 1856, and through him met Morris ( WMR I, 195). He seems to be mistaken here: Mackail quotes a letter from Burne-Jones, claiming he first met DGR, and WMR, at a meeting of the Working Men’s College six months earlier, and by Easter had already moved to London to study painting (Mackail 100). No doubt the meeting was more memorable to the young Burne-Jones than to either of the Rossettis.

The June issue is 66 pages, one leaf longer than most issues of the magazine.