By-electionscope.
The Retrograde.
"He wanted to see the town grow larger and the dates grow less."
Birmingham Daily Post.
"Come where the dates grow smaller!"
A KEY TO CUBISM.
The chief exponent of "the new geometric art" explains the whole movement in the following passage, as reproduced in The Observer:—
"Primitive space has entered into us, as it were.... Against that space within us, as against the space that appalled the savage from without, we erect always more hard and logical images.... All brute material, animate and inanimate, of earth, becomes an organism to confront the soul. Formerly the soul as a simple figure, like a ballet, faced the environing vagueness.
"Appearance then, at present, becomes a dyke around the invision from within. And, as a consequence even of this, the appearance, as it is seen in art to-day, tends to be more removed from everyday objective reality than at any former period of art. A new religion is being built up, girder by girder, around the vague spirit. Space, the physical space of savage shyness, is now on our side."