THE

CROWN OF WILD OLIVE.

FOUR LECTURES

ON

INDUSTRY AND WAR.

•BOD

BY

JOHN RUSKIN, M.A.

HONORARY STUDENT OF CHRISTCHURCH, AND SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART.

'And indeed it should have been of gold, had not Jupiter been so poor.'

ARISTOPHANES (Plutus).

LONDON:

SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE.

G. ALLEN, HEATHFIELD COTTAGE, KESTON, KENT.

1873.