Produced by Ted Garvin, Peter Barozzi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net These essays, reprinted from the _Times Literary Supplement_ with a few additions and corrections, are not all entirely or directly concerned with art; but even the last one--Waste or Creation?--does bear on the question, How are we to improve the art of our own time? After years of criticism I am more interested in this question than in any other that concerns the arts. Whistler said that we could not improve it; the best we could do for it was not to think about it. I have discussed that opinion, as also the contrary opinion of Tolstoy, and the truth that seems to me to lie between t…
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