Scribner's magazine . Miss Dorothy McCallan.(Photographed by F. Hollyer, from chalk drawing in the possession of the artist.) GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, By Cosmo Monkhoiise HO was it whoinvented thephrase, theliterary idea?and did he quiteunderstand whathe meant by it?Did it occur tohim that ideasare the propertyof the h u m a nmind and not ofany particularart; that thoughsome can be fullyexpressed by oneart only, andsome better ex-pressed by oneart than another,to deny the rightof any art to ex-press or suggest what it can would beto impoverish it very seriously? Lit-. erature would come of
Scribner's magazine . Miss Dorothy McCallan.(Photographed by F. Hollyer, from chalk drawing in the possession of the artist.) GEORGE FREDERICK WATTS, By Cosmo Monkhoiise HO was it whoinvented thephrase, theliterary idea?and did he quiteunderstand whathe meant by it?Did it occur tohim that ideasare the propertyof the h u m a nmind and not ofany particularart; that thoughsome can be fullyexpressed by oneart only, andsome better ex-pressed by oneart than another,to deny the rightof any art to ex-press or suggest what it can would beto impoverish it very seriously? Lit-. erature would come off better thanpainting, but how changed and dullwould it be if what may be called thepictorial idea ivere excluded from itsterritory. Fortunately men of imagination whoare also artists have always refused tobe strictly bound by pedantic theories,and the greatest of them have not beenthe first to break down any inconveni-ent barriers between one art and an-other, which hampered the expressionof their thoughts. What has been willbe, and even in the present day of dom-inant realism we have several artistswho endeavor to express by paint suchideas as inspire them, without much re-gard as to whether they are liter-ary or not. With one of these. SirE. Burne-Jones, I dealt in ScribnersMagazine last February, and I am nowto write a few words about another,who has done as much as any ar-tist of his generation to maintain the »•* The illustrations in this article are all reproduced with the kind consent of the owners of the original paiut-ings, and the permission of the p
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