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are so hard to define. When an artist says to me, 

 " There is a color that sings," I know what he 

 means ; as I do when my friend says of the funeral 

 music in Tristan that " it always hurts her eyes." 

 Musicians compose symphonies in color, and artists 

 paint pictures in symphonies. Musicians and authors 



Arbor in a Salem Garden. 



acknowledge the domination of color and color 

 terms ; a glance at a modern book catalogue will 

 prove it. Stephen Crane and other modern extrem- 

 ists depend upon color to define and describe 

 sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, ideas, vices, virtues, 

 traits, as well as sights. Sulphur-yellow is deemed 



