TIIB IDEALS OF ART". 42I its effort seem to result in nothing but hopeless failure. Not only
are they defeated now, but our national flag is so given up to our rivals that henceforth we …

THE art of a nation is part of its life. The form which it assumes is not accidental, but is the
outcome of the aesthetic tendencies of the people. These tendencies are themselves the …

certain memorable occasion, and the words come home to me to-day most painfully. For to
write truly, frankly, and usefully of the Art of England to-day, many unpleasant things must be …

He is not ungrateful, however, for the generous reception that has been given to his work.
More than sixty notices lie before him as he writes these words, while nearly half the volume …

HEN we look at ancient works of art we habitually treat them not merely as objects of
aesthetic enjoyment but also as successive deposits of the human imagination. It is indeed …

WHAT I would like to point out to you tuted the principle of the struggle of classes is the
powerful influence of art as a with the principle of collaboration of classes, spiritual factor of …

Addressing you for the first time, at some length, on the threshold of those relations which my
office establishes between us, and which a deep and sympathetic interest in your artistic …

wealth but also of the intellectual culture which forms the fruit of our civilization. At first,
indeed, the demand for popular education was modest enough; it sought little beyond an …

((2 ON THE STUDY OF CLASSICAL AIRT. words, as nothing else will teach him, what was
the genius of antiquity for endowing all the forces of nature and the spirit with clearly …