The scholastic intelligence, succulently appreciative, blind,hopelessly blind to the fact that every great work of art is astrenuous, an almost despairing effort to express and convey, treatsthe whole thing as some foolish riddle--"explains it to the children."As if every picture was a rebus and every poem a charade! "Littlechildren," he says, "this teaches you"--and out comes the platitude!Of late years, in Great Britain more particularly, the School has beencalled upon to conquer still other fields... read more
