On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2)
A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
On the Old Road collects John Ruskin's scattered essays and articles on art, science and literature, and this second volume shows how wide his interests ran. It opens with his evidence to parliamentary commissions on the National Gallery and the Royal Academy and his letters on what a museum or picture gallery should be, followed by minor writings on art: the Cavalli monuments and the rivers of Verona, Christian art and symbolism, and a protest against extending railways into the Lake District. Then come his youthful papers on natural science, among them the color of the Rhine and the strata of Mont Blanc, and his late essays on literature, including Fiction, Fair and Foul. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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