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its insistence on the right of the artist to select his own subject-matter-Mr. Charles Whibley suggests that it must be peculiarly painful for me to find that the ethical impo

g tribute to my story. For if a work of art is rich, and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than ?sthetics will see it

tian Leader and the Christian World, regards it as an ethical parable: Light, which I am told is the organ of the English mystics, regards it as a work of high spiritual import; the St. James's Gazette, which is seeking ap

ery point of view. Even Gautier had his limitations just as much as Diderot had, and in modern England Goethes are rare. I can only assure Mr. Charles Whibley that

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