GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS 55 



Spanish town are on lines of primitive directness 

 which quite clearly reveal sharply defined limitations. 

 A directness which at first glance seems similar pre- 

 vails in the Dutch, but this becomes neat restraint 

 upon close study, rather than limitation, although 

 there is a certain lack of imagination. But all the 

 Dutch artful carefulness is simplicity itself when 

 placed alongside the complex and very highly "or- 

 ganized" design, showing great ingenuity in its every 

 part, which is the development of the English-Ameri- 

 can — or as we may by this time say, the American. 

 Here, through these lines upon the paper — which are 

 really the pictures of their creators' minds, in a cer- 

 tain sense — it is possible to trace broadly the racial 

 characteristics and the complex qualities which lie far 

 beneath them, that are peculiar to the races repre- 

 sented. 



