were forced to turn. The presentmovement, of which we hear so much, possibly toomuch, represents more than anything the subtleascendancy of Orient over Occident. The firstpremonition of this impending triumph was appar-ent as far back as the early sixties of the past cen-tury-,when a certain Mme.… … THE WAV DOWN TO THE SE.\ spirits. Scattered quite by chance, the seed soonbore fruit in more than one quarter. ThoughWhistler i)aid his tribute in explicit fashion, it wasManet who, inspired by the Spaniards and freedfrom scholastic influences by the sturdy exampleof Courbet, first seized upon the…
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