A curious love of ugliness lias grown up of Into years among artists of » certain class. Wherever 1 go now I nil confronted with tilings, professing to he pictures, which seem to lack some of the most essential qualities of true works of art. Are we losing our perception of beauty, or is this cult ! of the repulsive merely a passing craze j which will die out a* soon as some new i fad o. fashion is invented?— The Studio. Nothing stirs the promptings of impatience am! protest to activity so successfully as a course of house-hunting is London. You butt up against England in its most English mood, and the collision wakes th» .American in .you to a Kansas pitch. The list, of people to be kicked that is amstswd by t.ho simple desire to lenre one's flat, and take another La lob£. —Harper's , Weekly, New York.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 12833, 5 April 1905, Page 1 (Supplement)
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