Henry Adams

PREFACE This volume contains eighty-five reproductions in color of paintings from the collections of the National Gallery of Art, together with comments designed to assist the reader in an appreciation of them. There are also separate notes on the dates and provenance of each picture. In making...

PREFACE We have grown accustomed to speak offhandedly of "modern literature," of the "modern temper," and even of "the modern," but until recently we have not made much effort to analyze the meaning of this term that we find so useful. We have postponed the task of defining it for the same...