ABSTRACT
It was astonishing what revelations of wonder and beauty in common things were thus attained in a brief period. There is a charm also essential to all works of genius which for want of a more definite term people are content to call the ineffable. It is a quality that seems to be infused through the design of the artist after its mechanical finish - as life entered the statue at the prayer of the Grecian sculptor. Although he seldom transcends the limited sphere in which he so efficiently concentrates his genius, the variety of tone, like different airs on the same instrument, gives him an imaginative scope rarely obtained in elaborate narrative. Brevity is as truly the soul of romance as of wit; the light that warms is always concentrated, and expression and finish, in literature as in painting, are not dependent upon space.
