Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1906 (Heft 16))

students of the painters’ annual exhibitions have remarked that, while such
exhibitions show often a broader range of subject, from year to year, the
artistic standards are not sustained. Neither does the mass of the results
impress with the sincerity and value of the purpose of the work displayed.
Viewing them, one is apt to ask oneself, after admiring the clever handling
fo pigments: But have they got to be painted, all these ?
On serious reflection, the cause is not far to seek. When inspiration
to create pictures springs chiefly from the desire to exhibit, win membership
in a society, or public popularity and newspaper praise, the artistic results
are apt to be not of the highest or the noblest. Joseph T Keiley

AN ARABESQUE.
FOR years, at the bidding of the high priest, performers played
at intervals upon chimes in the tower of the Temple of
Aspiration. And now and then, the neighboring people
stirred from their lethargy, and complained that the call of
the chimes broke in upon their rest and peace.
So, finally, the high priest kept the bells mute. And there was silence
— a silence " as of a world left empty of its throng.” And the neighboring
people stirred, and were restless; woke, and wondered at the great void.
But should the chimes again ring out, who can say if they would be
better understood? Dallett Fuguet.

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