The Artist And His Mission, a Study in æsthetics

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Much of the finer work in them can hardly be traced, except by the keenest sight, until it is magnified." — Ruskin.
Tennyson is said to have written parts of his poem entitled " Maud" fifty times, and to have occupied three entire days on six of the lines.
This statement rests on the veracity of some anonymous foreign corre- spondent; but there can be no doubt but that his poems in general evince a degree of elaboration which Homer or Shakspeare would have regarded a waste of time.
THE SENSE OF
... BEAUTY. 113 art, must suffer, in order that this or that individual's superiority may appear.
But abundant compensation is rendered by talent for all these shortcomings through the vast work and important functions it performs in the service of the beautiful. Without it the realm of art would be like a head without a- body. What is done by it may be summed up under three heads.
1. It disseminates the products of the highest artistic power. In the sphere of painting, how many would be unacquainted with the works of the great masters, were they not multitudinously duplicated by those endowed with the gift of reproduction.


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