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fashions concerning painting, music, and the 

 drama. 



One generation admires strength and breadth ; 

 the next loves delicate finish and nice execution. 

 At one time nothing can be too realistic for the 

 critics of the day ; and again some master-mind 

 will make a nation of idealists. It would be in- 

 teresting, if this introduction were the proper 

 place, in following out this comparison, to see 

 how far these corresponding tastes in the several 

 arts agreed or differed at designated periods, 

 that is, whether a change in taste as to painting 

 was coincident with a similar change or reaction 

 in music and the drama. That there is some 

 interdependence in this aspect among the sev- 

 eral arts is doubtless true ; it certainly is true 

 as between the closely allied arts of architecture 

 and landscape art. 



Mr. Hamerton has recently stated, with his 

 usual precision, in a paper on " JE^sthetics, " 

 from which the following extract is made, a 

 philosophic reason for these changes which may 

 well be applied to a review of the art now 

 under discussion. He says : 



