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ART
Modern Painting
Its Tendency and Meaning
By Willard H. Wright
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Transcriber’s Notes
Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.
The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect
correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.
The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical
errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here
(before/after):
[p. 4]:
... clear over head, with shells from three of four guns making
little rose-coloured ...
... clear over head, with shells from three or four guns making
little rose-coloured ...
[p. 16]:
... The Musseta Waltz and Rudolph’s Narrative; ...
... The Musetta Waltz and Rudolph’s Narrative; ...
[p. 30]:
... “The rain leaps and pirouttes like a chorus of Russian
elves. It jumps. ...
... “The rain leaps and pirouettes like a chorus of Russian
elves. It jumps. ...
[p. 32]:
... the fingers of his right hand he picked at the blackened and
roughtly-bitten ...
... the fingers of his right hand he picked at the blackened and
roughly-bitten ...
[p. 32]:
... and stood looking at Moisse with his mouth open and his
checks wrinkled ...
... and stood looking at Moisse with his mouth open and his
cheeks wrinkled ...
[p. 39]:
... was. Miriam Kipper abetted her. Allan MacDougal, in the part
of a half-witted ...
... was. Miriam Kiper abetted her. Allan MacDougall, in the part
of a half-witted ...
[p. 40]:
... he has given us Przbyshewski’s Homo Sapiens, the book about
which I ...
... he has given us Przybyszewski’s Homo Sapiens, the book
about which I ...