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...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...
Very different in character are the works of Kandinsky and Klee. The former seeks a refuge from modern life through a play of abstract form and colour. Squares, triangles and circles carefully arranged make balanced colour compositions that gladden the eye but never attack the intellect or the emotions. Klee's refuge is in dreams. Like the surrealists, he portrays vague images conjured up from the subconscious and paints them with a tongue-in-the-cheek seriousness that has been completely misunderstood by his lugubrious colleagues in Paris. Nolde, like the sculptor Lehmbruck, is German in his intensity and paints...
Zerbe is a complete modernist in his semi abstract style of paintings and his regard for the importance of the formal qualities of pictorial design. He is a typical German in the emotional intensity displayed in his work. The superb colour of the artist and his delicate touch are, perhaps, the most striking elements in his work. Using a special hand made Japanese paper for his water colours, he produces a soft delicate quality that is perfectly consistent with the subtle tone relations that are far more important to the eye than the subjects portrayed are to the mind. Colour...
...pair sits, from nine o'clock to one. a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins, as if he thought he was very funny indeed. At one he disappears, presently emerges from a bathing-machine, and may be seen, a kind of salmon-colour porpoise, splashing about in the ocean...
...commoner of them he has provided a wealth of chronological tables and documentation. The most tenacious of the legends represented Virgil as an humiliated lover, suspended in a basket from his mistress' window. This appeared, in varying forms, from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, everywhere with a local colour of its own. Scarcely less widespread was the story that Virgil had devised an ingenious lie detector, the bocca della verita, in the form of an animal's head which bit off the finger of anyone guilty of falsehood...