Excerpt from Catalogue of Expressionist Pictures: By Members of the Chicago Literary Club Exposed in the Club Rooms, Monday Evening, February 28, 1898 and Not to Be Spoken of Elsewhere Lest the Dignity of the Club Be Derogated<br><br>That which is good, needs for the spiritually initiate no demonstration; albeit to the unillumined soul it must per force be oft times a by-word and a cause of stumbling. This brief foreword, then, shall utter no note of apology, no sound of labored argument. The rather shall it seek, by discriminating analogy and subtile suggestion, to enhance the perfection of goodness, to heighten the charm of beauty, and to encourage the truly initiate to discern goodness and beauty hidden in that which to the unanointed eye is but commonplace and homely.<br><br>Already there have arisen those who have told the English people that poetry is inherent in the life of the peddler as well as of the prince, and that the turning of an ass' ears on the pivot of its skull may quite as well bespeak the sublime as does the rolling of the earth upon its axis and the Spinning of the stars along their pathless paths. Sic Wordsworth over seas, and not less loudly this side of the ocean Whitman, the good gray poet, with his tables of contents of towns, his catalogues of show windows and his worship of the unwashed body.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.