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Little Tour of France
Little Tour of France
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From Preface: "The notes presented in this volume were gathered, as will easily be perceived, a number of years ago and on an expectation not at that time answered by the event, and were then published in the United States. The expectation had been that they should accompany a series of drawings, and they themselves were altogether governed ... more »[vi] the sense and the quest of the constitution, the inner springs of the subject-springs and connections social, economic, historic. One must really choose, in other words, between the benefits of the perception of surface-a perception, when fine, perhaps none of the most frequent-and those of the perception of very complex underlying matters. If these latter had had, for me, to be taken into account, my pages would not have been collected. At the time of their original appearance the series of illustrations to which it had been their policy to cling for countenance and company failed them, after all, at the last moment, through a circumstance not now on record; and they had suddenly to begin to live their little life without assistance. That they have seemed able in any degree still to prolong even so modest a career might perhaps have served as a reason for leaving them undisturbed. In fact, however, I have too much appreciated-for any renewal of inconsistency-the opportunity of granting them at last, in an association with Mr. Pennell's admirable drawings, the benefit they have always lacked. The little book thus goes forth finally as the picture-book it was designed to be. Text and illustrations are, altogether and alike, things of the play of eye and hand and fancy-views, head-pieces, tail-pieces; through the artist's work, doubtless, in a much higher degree than the author's."
Author:
From Preface: "The notes presented in this volume were gathered, as will easily be perceived, a number of years ago and on an expectation not at that time answered by the event, and were then published in the United States. The expectation had been that they should accompany a series of drawings, and they themselves were altogether governed ... more »[vi] the sense and the quest of the constitution, the inner springs of the subject-springs and connections social, economic, historic. One must really choose, in other words, between the benefits of the perception of surface-a perception, when fine, perhaps none of the most frequent-and those of the perception of very complex underlying matters. If these latter had had, for me, to be taken into account, my pages would not have been collected. At the time of their original appearance the series of illustrations to which it had been their policy to cling for countenance and company failed them, after all, at the last moment, through a circumstance not now on record; and they had suddenly to begin to live their little life without assistance. That they have seemed able in any degree still to prolong even so modest a career might perhaps have served as a reason for leaving them undisturbed. In fact, however, I have too much appreciated-for any renewal of inconsistency-the opportunity of granting them at last, in an association with Mr. Pennell's admirable drawings, the benefit they have always lacked. The little book thus goes forth finally as the picture-book it was designed to be. Text and illustrations are, altogether and alike, things of the play of eye and hand and fancy-views, head-pieces, tail-pieces; through the artist's work, doubtless, in a much higher degree than the author's."
ISBN-13: 9780403010424
ISBN-10: 040301042X
Pages: 350
Rating: ?
ISBN-10: 040301042X
Pages: 350
Rating: ?
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