Art was once defined as "the creation of new forms of beauty." Our juvenile geniuses have altered all that. "The New Art" is better defined as "the creation of novel forms of ugliness." Its inspiration is Corruption, its auxiliaries are the two hideous imps, Scratch and Smudge. Old Art, with its bosh about beauty, its rot about romance, its fudge about finish, its twaddle about taste, will be good enough to take a back seat. Apollo the Inspirer must give way to the sooty imp and incubus, New Scratch!—
Raphael? Ideal Beauty spoiled his Art!
Rembrandt? Of light and shade he was no judge
The Hideous now must play the leading part,
Chiaroscuro yield to Shapeless Smudge
QUOTATION FROM BYRON FOR THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN.
"Again he urges on his wild Korea."—Mazeppa.
TO HANWELLIA FROM EARLSWOOD.
["In my time at Eton it was the custom with one's tutor to supply us with what was disrespectfully called 'nonsense' material for some suggested theme."—James Payn, in "Our Note-Book" in "The Illustrated London News.">[
