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Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1927, Page 3

ART. "An artist may take five or ten years to paint a picture, and it is not to ho expected that a transitory glance of a beholder can take in the full value <>l a work of art. Art is said to be superior to nature and commonplace when bowing to the influences of human nature. Art for art’s sake becomes the popular liv-word of those who know neither the meaning of the one nor the significance of the other. Art cannot he so easily divorced from life.”—Mr Frank 0. Salisbury. in the " British Weeklv.”

ROMANCE. “Romance—and I use the term loosely for writing that is extravagant in action, expression, or emotional resources ; that is pitched beyond the factual realities of everyday life—seems to spoil easily. The very weepy book of yesterday too often brings laughter to-day. Everyone at some time experiences the disquieting feeling of picking up an old novel that he once rated superlative in fine sentiment only to find it gone flat, even a bit silly.”— Mr Frederick P. A layer, in the “ Virginia Quarterly Review.”

HUMANITY AND THE STAGE. “Wo shall never get: the whole of the human drama on the stage, because the dramatist is only human. The world may be full of plots, but he can only search for some particular happening, some storv near enough to his own way of imagining for him to bo able to imagine himself into the protagonist. He can only make his audience seojas much as he has been able to see. His art helps him by letting him do on the stage wliat could not be clone in real life in order to explain to bis audience what is clone in real life.”—Miss Clemence Dane.