Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Library Edition THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN ON THE OLD ROAD VOLUMES I-II NATIONAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NEW YORK CHICAGO ON THE OLD ROAD. _A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND ARTICLES ON ART AND LITERATURE._ PUBLISHED 1834-1885. VOL. II. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE PICTURE GALLERIES. PARLIAMENTARY EVIDENCE:-- NATIONAL GALLERY SITE COMMISSION. 1857 3 SELECT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 1860 25 THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION 50 A MUSEUM OR PICTURE GALLERY 71 MINOR WRITINGS UPON ART. THE CAVALLI MONUMENTS, VERONA. 1872 89 VERONA AND ITS RIVERS (WITH CATALOGUE). 1870 99 CHRISTIAN ART AND SYMBOLISM. 1872 118 ART SCHOOLS OF MEDIAEVAL CHRISTENDOM. 1876 121 THE EXTENSION OF RAILWAYS. 1876 125 THE STUDY OF BEAUTY. 1883 132 NOTES ON NATURAL SCIENCE. THE COLOR OF THE RHINE. 1834 141 THE STRATA OF MONT BLANC. 1834 143 THE INDURATION OF SANDSTONE. 1836 145 THE TEMPERATURE OF SPRING AND RIVER WATER. 1836. 148 METEOROLOGY. 1839 153 TREE TWIGS. 1861 158 STRATIFIED ALPS OF SAVOY. 1863 162 INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTION AND ANIMATED LIFE. 1871 168 LITERATURE. FICTION--FAIR AND FOUL. 1880-81 175 FAIRY STORIES. 1868 290 ECONOMY. HOME, AND ITS ECONOMIES. 1873 299 USURY. A REPLY AND A REJOINDER. 1880 314 USURY. A PREFACE. 1885 340 THEOLOGY. NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEPFOLDS. 1851 347 THE LORD'S PRAYER AND THE CHURCH. 1879-81. (Letters and Epilogue.) 382 THE NATURE AND AUTHORITY OF MIRACLE. 1873 418 AN OXFORD LECTURE. 1878 429 * * * * * PICTURE GALLERIES: _THEIR FUNCTIONS AND FORMATION._ A. PARLIAMENTARY EVIDENCE. NATIONAL GALLERY SITE COMMISSION 1857. SELECT COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS 1860. THE ROYAL ACADEMY COMMISSION 1863. B. LETTERS ON A MUSEUM OR PICTURE GALLERY. (_Art Journal, June and August, 1880._) * * * * * PICTURE GALLERIES--THEIR FUNCTIONS AND FORMATION. THE NATIONAL GALLERY SITE COMMISSION.[1]