The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing   By: John Ruskin (1819-1900)

THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE

Also

MUNERA PULVERIS

PRE RAPHAELITISM ARATRA PENTELICI

THE ETHICS OF THE DUST

FICTION, FAIR AND FOUL

THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING

by

JOHN RUSKIN, M.A.

[Illustration: Portrait of Carlyle

Etched by E. A. Fowle From Painting by Samuel Lawrence]

[Illustration]

Boston and New York Colonial Press Company Publishers

CONTENTS.

THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.

PAGE LECTURE I.

WORK, 17

LECTURE II.

TRAFFIC, 44

LECTURE III.

WAR, 66

MUNERA PULVERIS.

PREFACE, 97

CHAP.

I. DEFINITIONS, 111

II. STORE KEEPING, 125

III. COIN KEEPING, 151

IV. COMMERCE, 170

V. GOVERNMENT, 181

VI. MASTERSHIP, 204

APPENDICES, 222

PRE RAPHAELITISM.

PREFACE, 235

PRE RAPHAELITISM, 237

ARATRA PENTELICI.

PREFACE, 283

LECTURE

I. OF THE DIVISION OF ARTS, 287

II. IDOLATRY, 304

III. IMAGINATION, 322

IV. LIKENESS, 350

V. STRUCTURE, 372

VI. THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS, 395

THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND, 415

NOTES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRUSSIA, 435

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

ARATRA PENTELICI.

PLATES FACING PAGE

I. PORCH OF SAN ZENONE. VERONA, 300

II. THE ARETHUSA OF SYRACUSE, 302

III. THE WARNING TO THE KINGS, 302

IV. THE NATIVITY OF ATHENA, 308

V. TOMB OF THE DOGES JACOPO AND LORENZO TIEPOLO, 333

VI. ARCHAIC ATHENA OF ATHENS AND CORINTH, 334

VII. ARCHAIC, CENTRAL AND DECLINING ART OF GREECE, 355

VIII. THE APOLLO OF SYRACUSE AND THE SELF MADE MAN, 366

IX. APOLLO CHRYSOCOMES OF CLAZOMENÆ, 368

X. MARBLE MASONRY IN THE DUOMO OF VERONA, 381

XI. THE FIRST ELEMENTS OF SCULPTURE, 382

XII. BRANCH OF PHILLYREA. DARK PURPLE, 390

XIII. GREEK FLAT RELIEF AND SCULPTURE BY EDGED INCISION, 392

XIV. APOLLO AND THE PYTHON. HERACLES AND THE NEMEAN LION, 400

XV. HERA OF ARGOS. ZEUS OF SYRACUSE, 401

XVI. DEMETER OF MESSENE. HERA OF CROSSUS, 402

XVII. ATHENA OF THURIUM. SEREIE LIGEIA OF TERINA, 402

XVIII. ARTEMIS OF SYRACUSE. HERA OF LACINIAN CAPE, 404

XIX. ZEUS OF MESSENE. AJAX OF OPUS, 405

XX. GREEK AND BARBARIAN SCULPTURE, 407

XXI. THE BEGINNINGS OF CHIVALRY, 409

FIGURE PAGE

1. SPECIMEN OF PLATE, 293

2. WOODCUT, 323

3. FIGURE ON GREEK TYPE OF VASES, 326

4. EARLY DRAWING OF THE MYTH 330

5. CUT, "GIVE IT TO ME," 332

6. ENGRAVING ON COIN, 335

7. DRAWING OF FISH. BY TURNER, 362

8. IRON BAR, 379

9. DIAGRAM OF LEAF, 391

THE

CROWN OF WILD OLIVE

THREE LECTURES ON

WORK, TRAFFIC AND WAR