. Arena magazine - Volume 40. , almost, it seemedto me, clairvoyantly for the moment, an earlysource of Rembrandts psychology of light; forit is that. Other artists deal with its physi-ology; Rembrandt alone with the soul of lies his apartness. Digitized by Google <502j Our Literary Section: Best Books of the Holiday Season. To New Englanders no town of Hollandshould hold such interest as quaint old Leyden,where in the Church of St. Peter, John Robin-son lies buried; and yet, as Miss Waller pointsout, no memorial erected by the descendantsof the Pilgrims marks a spot that should
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