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                                     THE ART-JOURNAL CATALOGUE OF
M. GnOnur holds the highest facturers of LAMPS and CHOZEIERs; of these we
give three examples.  His workmanship. M. GagMeau
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                           has had the honour to re-
 rank among the Paris an-works are renowned for excellence of design, and
also for good constrution and  ceive- one of the gold medals.
 Of classic antiquity, without any reference to the medium of a meritorious
and successful. Anud,m to complete the picture, here
 former Renaissance, is upheld to be the one true course which alone Iand
there may be observed a few almost isolated students of
 cam raise Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century to a ancient
and early Art, -who aspire to rise oabove the region of
 position in reference to Art that may be esteemed -not unworthy  repetition
and reproduction, and to become true artists--the
 of the position she does hold in respect to Science and Literature.' founders
perhaps of some new style in Art, or, at any rate, the
 On the other side, the restoration of the old Gothic, and in:. authors of
newly modified expressions and applications of existing
 England its restoration as it flourished on English ground in its styles~
of Art.' These are students who seek to imaster principles.
 Edwardian days, perhaps with a tinge of southern influence, is For a while
they may. appear to have no higher aim than the
 advocated with at least an equal degree of earnestness, devoted- perfect
copying of ancient examples: their copies, however, really
 ness, and resolution. -. And between these two opposing sections are experiments,
by, which they are practically testing the
 of the revivers of Art are those who, having much humbler ambi-, picle'tyarinsigating.
          They. copy first, that; after-
 tion,- and -being endowed with less vigorous energy, would bewrstyma   
        bcoe    thoroughly competent to originate.
 content to do over again whatever may have been justly esteemed-Tercpig
loi        h  means whereby they initiate themselves
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