ALEXANDER POPE
Pope has more virulence and less vehemence than any of the great satirists. His character of Sporus is the perfection of satirical writing. The very sound of words scarify before the sense strikes.
IMPRESSIONISTS
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did—sly dog!
TURNER
Turner is only a rhetorician in paint.
ENGLISH LITERATURE
What a stay-at-home literature is the English! It would be easy to name fifty lesser French writers whose names and works are familiar all over the world. It would be difficult to name four of our greatest whose writings are read to any extent outside England.
THE WOODS OF AUFFRAY
In the distance, through the trees, gleamed a still argent lake, a reticent water that must have held the subtlest fish that ever were. Around its marge the trees and flags and fleurs-de-luce were unbreakably asleep.