International studio . a crossbow loaded with a rose are Gaiety andGenerosity. Above the battle the God ofLove sits enthroned. Curiously enough, far down into theeighteenth century this joyous custom sur-vived at the Swiss town of Fribourg. Awooden castle was erected, the ladies occupiedit and the gentlemen attacked it. Flowershurtled through the air like snow-flakes. Ofcourse, the outcome was inevitable. Each ofthe ladies chose one of the victors and paidhim a rose and a kiss as ransom. Afterwardswhile the ladies returned to their houses andshowered the heroes from their windows withrose peta
International studio . a crossbow loaded with a rose are Gaiety andGenerosity. Above the battle the God ofLove sits enthroned. Curiously enough, far down into theeighteenth century this joyous custom sur-vived at the Swiss town of Fribourg. Awooden castle was erected, the ladies occupiedit and the gentlemen attacked it. Flowershurtled through the air like snow-flakes. Ofcourse, the outcome was inevitable. Each ofthe ladies chose one of the victors and paidhim a rose and a kiss as ransom. Afterwardswhile the ladies returned to their houses andshowered the heroes from their windows withrose petals and perfumes, the victors rode onhorseback through the streets. And only ahundred years ago the young people in thevineyards of Fribourg and Vaud used to sing:Chateau damour, te veux-tu pas rendre?Veux-tu te rendre, ou tenir bon? .uminos. \V.\1. C. CORN WELL L UMINOSBY W. H. DE B. NELSON When writing upon Mr. William and his luminos, the question mustsooner or later arise. What are luminos andhow do they affect art? The great difficultyin answering this perfectly justifiable questionlies in the fact that no one seems to knowwith any certainty what exactly art is. Sev-eral years ago a book was published under themagic authorship of Clive Bell and its titleleft nothing to be desired. It was at length we were to be authoritativelyinformed as to what constitutes art. Thefrontispiece was an old Persian pot and, to alayman and possibly to some artists, appearedto have little to recommend it beyond the rev-erence which we are fain to accord to objectswhich have survived the centuries. Butdoubtless the text would put us in the posijonfor all time to declare, in all good faith, asat the douane, when a Persian pot is a pot ofart and when it is a plain pot. We hugged the book fiercely and hurried home to enjoyt
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