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written, and especially note the paragraph of summary of 

 p. 121 on the power of the Earth Mother, as Mother, and 

 >7ye ; watching and rewarding the conditions which 

 induce adversity and prosperity in the kingdoms of men : 

 comparing with it carefully the close of the fourth chap- 

 ter, p. So,* which contains, for the now recklessly mul- 

 tiplying classes of artists and colonists, truths essential 

 to their skill, and inexorable upon their labour. 



21. The pen-drawing facsimiled by Mr. Allen with 

 more than his usual care in the frontispiece to this num- 

 ber of ' Proserpina/ was one of many executed during 

 the investigation of the schools of Gothic (German, and 

 later French), which founded their minor ornamentation 

 on the serration of the thistle leaf, as the Greeks on that 

 of the Acanthus, but with a consequent, and often mor- 

 bid, love of thorny points, and insistance upon jagged or 

 knotted intricacies of stubborn vegetation, which is con- 

 nected in a deeply mysterious way with the gloomier 

 forms of Catholic asceticism. f 



* Which, with the following page, is the summary of many chap- 

 ters of ' Modern Painters : ' and of the aims kept in view throughout 

 ' Muncra Pulveris.' The three kinds of Desert specified of Rccd, 

 Sand, and Rock should be kept in mind as exhaustively including 

 the states of the earth neglected by man. For instance of a Reed 

 desert, produced merely by his neglect, see Sir Samuel Baker's ac- 

 count of the choking up of the bed of the White Nile. Of the sand 

 Sir F. Palgrave's journey from the Djowf to Havel, vol. i., p. 92. 



f This subject is first entered on in the ' Seven Lamps,' and carried 

 forward in the final chapters of ' Modern Painters,' to the point wheie 



