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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

Particularly let them make beautiful the habitations of the poor. A hundred-thousand-dollar picture from Europe is not in any way so valuable artis­tically as ten thousand dollars' worth of trees would be, or twenty thousand dollars spent on adorning the water-front, or fifty thou-sand dollars invested in changing slum tene­ments into comely and home-like dwellings. Art for the exclusive set only, whether that set is millionaires or alleged high-brows, is as bad as anything else that is exclusive. Unless art can get to the common people it is a superfluity. In Minnesota, the director of the State Art Commission, Maurice Irwin Flagg, has been doing some sensible and real art pro- 132 POUR MINUTE ESSAYS motion. He supplies farmers and dwellers in small villages gratis with models for at-tractive homes and landscape designs. The purpose is "to beautify the dwelling-places of the people and develop at the same time ambition for and a love of the beautiful in the minds of men with small incomes." This is the sort of art work that is

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