Picture and Text Henry James Author

It is on the contrary the constant extension that is visible, with the attendant circumstances of multiplied experiment and intensified research-circumstances that lately pressed once more on the attention of the writer of these remarks on his findin... Read more

It is on the contrary the constant extension that is visible, with the attendant circumstances of multiplied experiment and intensified research-circumstances that lately pressed once more on the attention of the writer of these remarks on his finding himself in the particular spot which history will perhaps associate most with the charming revival. A very old English village, lying among its meadows and hedges, in the very heart of the country, in a hollow of the green hills of Worcestershire, is responsible directly and indirectly for some of the most beautiful work in black and white with which I am at liberty to concern myself here; in other words, for much of the work of Mr. Abbey and Mr. Alfred Parsons. I do not mean that Broadway has told these gentlemen all they know (the name, from which the American reader has to brush away an incongruous association, may as well be written first as last); for Mr. Parsons, in particular, who knows everything that can be known about English fields and flowers, would have good reason to insist that the measure of his large landscape art is a large experience. Less