GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS 
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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. 
