Howards End by E. M. Forster: “For instance, when you came in I was reading Ruskin's Stones of Venice.”
The Octopus by Frank Norris: “Marius the Epicurean," "The Essays of Elia," "Sesame and Lilies," "The Stones of Venice," and the little toy magazines, full of the flaccid banalities of the "Minor Poets," were continually in her hands.”
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim: “nor of Ruskin's, whose Stones of Venice she had brought with her to re-read so nearly on the very spot”