[Note: for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents to the beginning of the text. Also I have made one spelling change: irrevelant circumstance to irrelevant circumstance.]

THE GATE OF APPRECIATION

Studies in the Relation of Art to Life

BY

CARLETON NOYES

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1907

COPYRIGHT 1907 BY CARLETON NOYES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April 1907

TO
MY FATHER
AND THE MEMORY OF
MY MOTHER

"Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,
As souls only understand souls."