Excerpt from Our Home and Country Although we Americans are quite conscious of our indebted ness to the French art academies for the useful part they have um doubtedly played in the develop ment of our graphic arts, it has been one of the unhappy concom itants of the foreign training of so many of the most accomplished American artists that their point of View and esthetic ideals should have been so completely European ized. Nothing is more natural than the powerful influence exerted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.