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Show m ! i in. MAY LEARN FROM AMERICA. A 1'iench crltlo acknowledges tho Mipremuo) of tho United Htates In applied ap-plied science In nnchanlca und ma-chlner), ma-chlner), In licligag) In agriculture on a great scuk but claims that the er qualltleH that give success In these fields make our literature and art lni-take lni-take of u certain degiee of Infer lot It) He claims that In energy und the ability to go straight to tho mark without with-out WASto of time, the people of Ameilca have shown results that dwarf tho woild but tl it it Is not possible to uchlevo the Iwst results In alt nn I llter.iUll'0 111 a huiiy The criticism has n certain plausibility about It and It Is erj ooinmonly uige 1 In ilxa.t the same nil) Unit the 1 lenilunnn now uifius It But 1 iolc dottier und sue vvl at beeromes of the Ideu Huoioss especially woill sumss, Is not achieved by doing hip ifert woilt su h ns we under cm 1 Ii) 'litrrl 1 wiiK. 'Ihls In as i u m mechanics!, In Industrial pro 1 r leg). In faiming as In a ri If Amerl ans ex "1 In Ii ml Ind i rial outpu' this n an hst thl- work la the b-st It m ans tl at although the work has been done at a speed that th Old W orld considers con-siders risky haste It haa been done supremely su-premely and that further time put upon up-on It would have been waated tint This must be ooneded It must also he conceded that the Old World Idea about American-made frabrles of all , kinds waa Just what It now Is about literature and art that rap dlt) of production pro-duction necessarily affected the quality unfavorably. It took a great many yeara to convince the Old World that our products were as superior In utlllt) and ilulsh aa they were rapid In make But thut la now admitted everywhere, Amerlcen goods from silk to steel are pre-eminent In the world a markets The secret Is (and the Old World was long In grasping It) that the Americana took all the time that waa necessary In the manufac lure but no more Now, aa to art and literature the Old World clings in these to Its former notion no-tion that there must he no hurry that what Is done quickly (say hy comparison compari-son with Old-World molheidsi Is not well done This does not follow In art or literature an) more than In matertul things and we den) the force of the plea. When a work of art Is finished. It Is time to leave It. and bgln another no amount of delay will add to Its beauty or merit The same In literature, litera-ture, when all Is said that can be well said on any subject or In an) work It Is also time to leave It A pretense of adding to It an 1 letting time dm it along In the pretense does not In fact add anything to It 8o that we fancy the Old World may have something to learn from America atiuul nrt and literature as It confesses It has learned In mechanics me-chanics ami material products |