Excerpt from The International Studio, Vol. 53: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art; Comprising July, August, September and October, 1914; Numbers 209, 210, 211, 212 Discrimination is not one of the domi nant characteristics of the times. We lump the gold and the gilt together; we pay a transient trib ute to the superlative merits of Fremstad's Isolde, and a few moments later we revel in the debauched, insipid refrain of some popular tune. We charter tugs to go down the bay and welcome the latest alien adversary of sanity of line, charm of colour and cleanliness of purpose; how often do we come across a paragraph or so devoted to the conspicuous loveliness of J. Francis Murphy? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.