TRUE AND THE BEAUTIFUL IN Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion. SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF JOHN RUSKIN, A.M., 66 AUTHOR OF "MODERN PAINters," "Stones of Venice," WITH A NOTICE OF THE AUTHOR, BY MRS, L. C. TUTHILL, AUTHOR OF "HISTORY OF ARchitecture," "THE ARTIST," ETC. * SECOND EDITION. NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY & SONS, 53 EAST TENTH STREET. KD/212 HARVARD Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States (Renewed in 1886.) The Beauty of Repose and Felicity, how consist- ent with the Ideal, Variation of their character at different elevations, Extent of the upper cloud region, . . Characteristics of the upper Clouds, Wordsworth's description of these Clouds, Value to the Painter of the Rain Cloud, The intense blue of the Sky after rain, The Campagna of Rome after a storm, . 79 The evanescent beauties of Nature, The Campagna of Rome by evening light, The elevations of the Earth the cause of the per- The Hills are the Earth's action; the Plains its Mountains are the bones of the Earth, Forms of Mountains, how modified by snow, ΙΟΙ c. Change the soils of the Earth, . The influence of the higher Mountains, |