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ence upon many painters of all schools whose minds are receptive to 
fresh ideas. 
No account, however cursory, of recent movements in art can 
ignore the rapid growth of interest in the graphic arts. It is just about 
ten years ago that a society for the encouragement of etching was 
formed in Chicago. Other large cities followed suit, and the annual 
exhibitions of etching, engraving, and lithography are engaging the 
attention of a wide public. Chiefly through the efforts of Joseph Pen¬ 
nell the National Academy of Design now devotes one of its exhibition 
galleries to the graphic arts. 
Having come to the end of the space assigned to this comment, it 
must be left at just the beginning of the subject. Never has the New 
World looked brighter for art, never has there been such widespread 
interest in it. 
A Sonnet from “Adam Homo” 
By Frederik Paludan-Muller 
Translated from the Danish b} T Robert Hillyer 
Here shall I sit and write you. It is late. 
Hie red sun dives helow the distant trees; 
Bushes and leaves, lulled faintly by the breeze, 
Merge in the dusk where night’s dark sentries wait. 
Sleep softly enters through the garden gate, 
Closes the wells of fragrance where the bees 
Have hummed all day; but sweet with memories 
The pale night violet wakes in hidden state. 
Love, when our lives move westward with the sun, 
And light is slanting dimly through the brake 
From that deep verge where all our days have set 
Then from our closing dreams, a single one 
Shall rise above the sleepers, and awake 
With fragrance like the pale night violet. 
