S THE BLESSED DAMOSEL WHAT HAT is known as the PreRaphaelite movement in English art was one of those events which discredit abstract theories of racial development and make broad and dogmatic generalization a vain show. For in the very heart of a century surrendered, according to its critics, to materialism and in a country devoted to trade, a fountain of fresh feeling for religion and art suddenly gushed out of the soil; and wonder, which was officially declared to be dead in an age of shop-keeping, had a new rebirth. The names of Newman, Keble, Pugin, Hunt, Millais, Burne-Jones, Ruskin, Brown, Ros ORBIA |