The New American Type, and Other Essays (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The New American Type, and Other Essays First at the group of portraits painted a hun dred years ago, and then at the group painted to-day, and stand undisturbed. Every specta tor enacted again the comic tragedy Of Rip Van Winkle. An astonishing change had taken place in men and women between the time of President Washington and that of President mckinley, bodies, faces, thoughts, had all become transformed. One short stair way from the portraits of Reynolds to those of Sargent ushered in change as if it had stretched from the first Pharaoh to the last Ptolemy. Enmeshed in bewilderment the spec tator rubbed his eyes, and asked if there was no mistake, if this was really the exposition worth millions, and not rather some bio logical hoax. Upon re¿ection it was apparent that there had been no prearrangement, no contrived purpose to confound the spectator, the ladies and gentlemen who got up the exhibition had been bent merely on giving pleasure to the eye, instruction to the mind. The show was honest beyond dispute. The first supposition which occurred to everybody was that Reynolds's Italian-cultivated and Old-time craft was one aspect of excellence, the technical power and modern craft of Sar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.