A DELSARTEAN SCRAP-BOOK HEALTH, PERSONALITY, BEAUTY, HOUSE-DECORATION, DRESS, ETC. COMPILED BY FREDERIC SANBURN WITH A PREFACE BY WALTER CRANE "I believe in the human being, mind and flesh, form and soul. To be shapely of form is so infinitely beyond wealth, power, fame, all that "I believe-I do more than think-I believe it to be a sacred duty, incum- The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created NEW YORK UNITED STATES BOOK COMPANY SUCCESSORS TO JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY 142 TO 150 WORTH STREET Art should interest by the true. Interest by the true to illumine the intelligence. -DELSARTE. not stark and stiffened persons, but the new-born poetry of God-poetry without stop, poetry still flowing, not yet caked in dead books with annotations and grammar, but Apollo and the Muses chanting still."-EMERSON. "The young citizens must not be allowed to grow up amongst images of evil, lest their souls assimilate the ugliness of their surroundings. Rather they should be like men living in a beautiful and healthy place; from everything that they see and hear, loveliness, like a breeze, should pass into their souls, and teach them without their knowing it the truth of which beauty is a manifestation."PLATO. "I am only solicitous about one thing, and that is lest I should do something that the constitution of man does not permit, or in the way or time it does not permit."-MARCUS AURELIUS. 182806 PREFACE. HE gospel of beauty gains an ever wider hearing: its message is, indeed, a much needed one in the modern world, which is apt to shut its eyes to all that distracts from the main business (or the whole duty) of man-to make money. Until it is discovered that the faculties which are concentrated on the supreme ideal of "making a pile "-to say nothing of the faculties consumed in the pitiful struggle for a bare subsistence-are not in condition, or perhaps are the very reverse of those wanted in the sympathetic recognition and cultivation of things beautiful. The half-awakened eye needs guidance in its search of a response to the appeal of æsthetic impressions: and since, in a mechanical methodical age, the body as well as the mind has a tendency to become specialized, and with cramping, fixed habits, grace and ease of movement become difficult and rare, as natural and expressive action disappears with natural conditions of life: so that in our complex and unlovely civilization the laws |