ABSTRACT
"Art" has among other debased uses, come to be treated as an adjective, supposedly descriptive of various products for which sale is sought, e.g. "Art Glass" "Art Furniture," "Art Gum" phrases which cause a shudder to a lover of pure English and drive to despair one who hopes for any dawning in his span of life, of popular understanding of and respect for the handmaid of life and of nature, known also, throughout great ages, as the hand maid of religion. Majority of persons who use their minds analytically might say, in effect, that Art is the formal expression of the sense of Beauty. The popular traditions of beauty and art among us are dead. The discernment of beauty has perished in the people. The art of our colonial forefathers should logically have been a continuation of or a development from the art of their several races and nations.
