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STYLE
STYLE, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come
to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh
vitality and wary alaerity, the fuid elements of
specch. By a figure, obvious enough, which yet
might serve for an epitome of literary method, the
most rigid and simplest of instruments has lent its
name to the subtlest and most lexible of arts,
Thence the application of the word has been ex
tended to arts other than literature, to the whole
range of the activities of man,
use the word style" in speaking of architecture
and sculpture, painting and music, daneing, play-
acting, and ericket, that we can apply it to the
careful achievements of the housebreaker and the
poisoner, and to the spontaneous animal movements
of the limbs of man or beast, is the noblest of
The fact that we