What Is Style?

Thefact tbat we use theword "style" in speakiug of ai'chitecture and sculpture, paintiug and music, dancing, play aoting and cricket, that we eau apply it to the careful achievements of the housebreakúr and the poisoner. and to the spontaueous animal niovenients of the limbe of man or beast, is the uoblest of uucouseious tributen to the faculty of lettern Moráis, philosophy and ícsthetic. mood and conviction, creed and whiiu. habit, passion and demonstration - what art bot the art of literature adinit? tlu cutrance of all these and fiuards them froni the suddenness oL mortality? All style is gesture, the genture of the inind aud of the soul. Other gestures change and flit; this is the ultímate and enduring revelation of 60iiality,