The Crown of Wild Olive
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.
_Portrait of Carlyle_
Etched by E. A. Fowle--From Painting by Samuel Lawrence]
Boston and New YorkColonial Press CompanyPublishers
CONTENTS.
THE CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.
PAGELECTURE 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 CLAZOMENAE, 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