E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Josephine Paolucci, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 26716-h.htm or 26716-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/1/26716/26716-h/26716-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/6/7/1/26716/26716-h.zip) Illustrated Library Edition 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 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