iently be called " Orpheus and Eurydice."
Each has had his own conception of the theme,
each his own professional technique in han-
dling his chosen medium, each his own habits
of brain, each, in a word, has found his own
subject. "Are these children who are playing
in the sunlight," said Fromentin, "or is it a
place in the sunlight in which children are
playing?" One is a "figure" subject, that is
to say, while the other is a landscape subject.

The whole topic of the "provinces" of the
arts becomes hopelessly academic and sterile
if one fails to keep his eye upon the individual
artist, whose free choice of a subject is con-
ditioned solely by his own artistic interest in
rendering such aspects of any theme as his
own medium of expression will allow him to
represent. Take one of the most beautiful
objects in nature, a quiet sea. Is this a
"painter-like" subject? Assuredly, yet the
etcher has often rendered the effect of a quiet
sea in terms of line, as a pastellist has ren-
dered it in terms of color, and a musician in
terms of tone-feeling, and a poet in terms of
tone-feeling plus thought. Each one of them
finds something for himself, selects his own
"subject," from the material presented by

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