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  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