The new spirit in drama & art . oats. Thehall-mark of barter is upon them, and they are meek andlong-sufFering. So one may penetrate, unmolested, downPlutonian passages into dark, low rooms, where members ofthe Chosen Race are grouped in smoke and mystery. Here,while we drink with them the honeyed miod, we may gathersuch impressions of dramatic light and shade as Rembrandtsought and found. Or we may plunge boldly, still unmolested,into Jewish meeting-houses to scorch in the slow fire of theintense devotional atmosphere, and to marvel at the gatheringof unforgettable Jewish types seen in a blaz
The new spirit in drama & art . oats. Thehall-mark of barter is upon them, and they are meek andlong-sufFering. So one may penetrate, unmolested, downPlutonian passages into dark, low rooms, where members ofthe Chosen Race are grouped in smoke and mystery. Here,while we drink with them the honeyed miod, we may gathersuch impressions of dramatic light and shade as Rembrandtsought and found. Or we may plunge boldly, still unmolested,into Jewish meeting-houses to scorch in the slow fire of theintense devotional atmosphere, and to marvel at the gatheringof unforgettable Jewish types seen in a blaze of candle-lightand bending over musty tomes, in feature and dress repeating somarkedly the devotional line, colour, mood of the architec-ture and decorations. Or come to the Market Place. It isSunday. The simple lines of the architecture are swingingrhythmically round a great coloured crowd of Polish the neutral walls frescoes of living forms are leaping ;upon this background the harmonious colours seek and find. STUDY OF HIMSELFBY WYSPIAXSKI. To/ace pa^t- 170. THE NEW SPIRIT IN CRACOW 171 each other in passionate embrace. It is so easy for them todo so. It is inevitable. The Poles, especially the peasants,feel colour. They seem unable to miss it. From the delicatetones of the scarves on the womens heads to the harmonisingtones of their stockings and lower wear, all is right. Withthem it is, colours in the blood and alls right with the world,as Browning would say. We may watch the colours merry-making on the walls for hours and there will not be ablot, only decoration. A society has been formed for thepreservation of old Cracow and to put frames on its endlesspictures. A great deal of valuable work has been done byindividual members of this society. Dr Francis Klein, forexample, has published two comprehensive volumes that bringthe historical, topographical, and artistic features of the placevividly before us. It is really worth forming societies forsuch artisti
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