ABSTRACT
A person of high colour in a room the colours of which do not properly contrast with her own, is lost and wasted, while with different surroundings her colour may be improved and softened. Our surroundings being then important, both for the cultivation of the eye and for the enhancement of our own inner and outer self, we naturally turn to the great army of artists to tell us what to do. All that human hands created they wished to see beautiful, whatever purpose it served, and to whatever art it belonged, and they found for everything the appropriate form. By observing and comparing good art and bad, unmeaning devices and designs full of thought and interest, one soon learns to distinguish which is which.
