[THE POLISH RIDER. Rembrandt
Tarnowski Collection, Dzikow]		[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[THE CASTLE IN THE PARK. Rubens. (Detail)
Vienna]		[28]
[LOVE. Millais
The Victoria and Albert Museum]		[48]
[THE MUSIC OF PAN. Signorelli
Berlin]		[74]
[PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S WIFE. J. Van Eyck
Bruges]		[96]
[HOPE. Puvis de Chavannes
By permission of Messrs. Durand-Revel]		[102]
[THE MASS OF BOLSENA. Raphael. (Detail)
The Vatican]		[118]
[THE CHILDREN AND THE BUTTERFLY. Gainsborough
National Gallery]		[134]

THE MIND OF THE ARTIST

I

An able painter by his power of penetration into the mysteries of his art is usually an able critic.

Alfred Stevens.[1]

[1] The Belgian painter, not the English sculptor.

II

Art, like love, excludes all competition, and absorbs the man.