There is much that has charm and much that is
educative in Mr. T. Sturge Moore's Armour for.Aphrodite,(Cayme Press, 8s. 6d.). He advocates a new aestheticism, or a new life of growth in the appreciation of beauty ; and he hopes, by this means, to help the goddess of beauty, who in her own naked glory as intuitive experience has been neglected and slighted, to achieve a new place in our civilization. The book is closely argued, and the thesis is illustrated by aphorismi which Mr. Sturge Moore calls " pivots." Such, for example, are : "Beauty is rarely simple and always suppose; com- pleteness," and " Modern art. ,criticism and psychology con- stantly confuse Anowledge with preference, sorting with selection, and origin with value." It is unfortunate that from time to time Mr. Sturge Moore arms Aphrodite with awkward and difficult words. Who, for example, would not feel a sinking of the heart at a paragraph " On the Paramountcy of
Surface in Graphic Art " * *
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