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memory of pleasure. This is the spirit 

 of all the arts. A beautiful picture, 

 whether its subject be a landscape or a 

 human face, is beautiful because it awakes 

 in us either a sense of our own actual or 

 possible happiness, or the memory of a 

 happiness which is gone. So it is with 

 music, which, although some are strangely 

 insensible to its appeal, as strangely strikes 

 in others chords of association that cannot 

 be traced to any source in this life : music, 

 indeed, is sometimes as a miracle among 

 the arts. So it is with literature : in that 

 domain an achievement having the quality 

 of beauty is a composition in which the 

 artist, while in words which live express- 

 ing his own mind on a pleasant theme, 

 makes the mind of another vibrate with a 

 consciousness of pleasure which is, or has 

 been, or yet may be, the other's own. 

 All art lives on association of ideas, and 

 joyous emotions recalled in serenity are 

 an enchantment into the mood of art. 

 That is why the contents of the tackle- 

 book are beautiful. They are associated 



