Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1918 — Art Never Grows Old. [ARTICLE]

Art Never Grows Old.

A great work of art is never oldfashioned ; because it expresses in final form some truth about human nature, .and human nature never changes —in comparison with its primal elements, the mountains are ephemeral. A drama dealing with the impalpable hqman soul is more likely to stay true than a treatise on georngy, writes William Lyon Phelps in the Bookman. This is the notable advantage that works of art have over the works of science, the advantage of being and remaining true. No matter how important the contribution- of scientific books, they are alloyed with inevitable and after the death of J their authors must be constantly revised by lesser men, improved by smaller minds; whereas the masterpieces Of poetry, drama and fiction cannot be revised, because they are always true. The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; and in liters* ’-ture, the earliest.