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are in every other particular delight fully artistic, but filled with reeking bad art. Why should it be so? Would it not seem that a taste cultured along one line would respond quickly along another? Perhaps it will come in time. And let me now beseech you, for the sake of high truth, if you have in your home any of the flat crayon portraits - that are distributed so freely and cheap - by over the country, or of the e-qually bad sort, the silly oil + water color copies of chromos, don't call on some poor unfor-tunate artist for his artistic opinion of it. It is a shame to make people tell untruths that way.

But you say "How are we to know what is good?" The art of sculpture & painting is the slow-ist product of civilization. Greece reached a time when Art & pictures