sentences:  The essays were originally published in consecutive monthly instalments of the new "Cornhill Magazine" between August and November 1860 (and published in a single volume in 1862).However, the "Cornhill"'s editor, William Makepeace Thackeray, was forced to abandon the series by the outcry of the magazine's largely conservative readership and the fears of a nervous publisher (Smith, Elder & Co.).The reaction of the national press was hostile, and Ruskin was, he claimed, "reprobated in a violent manner".