Transcriber's Note:

  1. [“cleanlines”] might be a typographical error for “clean lines” or “cleanliness”.
  2. Inconsistencies in the use of the words background(s) / back-ground(s); masterpiece(s) / master-piece(s); and today / to-day have been retained as in the original book.
  3. The following changes have been made to the original:
    1. which he [carresses] gently changed to “caresses”
    2. Mary in some of his [lovliest] pictures changed to “loveliest”
    3. for their part in the [distruction] changed to “destruction”
    4. [dissapointment], that lies crouching changed to “disappointment”
    5. whole scene of the [Crucifiixon] changed to “Crucifixion”
    6. [magnifience] of the four hundred changed to “magnificence”