The original edition, which appeared in 1888, is decidedly inferior.
[10] From the "Sea Pieces," for piano.
[Illustration: THE PIAZZA AND GARDEN WALK AT PETERBORO] This scope and amplitude of expression are realised through a method at once plastic and unlaboured; his art has spontaneity--the deceptive spontaneity of the expert craftsman.

It is not, in its elements, a strikingly novel style.

His harmony, _per se_, is not unusual, if one sets it beside the surprising combinations evolved by such innovators as d'Indy, Debussy, and Strauss.

It is in the novel disposition of familiar material--in what Mr.Apthorp has happily called his "free, instinctive application of the old in a new way"-- that MacDowell's emphatic individuality consists.

Whether it is a more signal achievement to create a new speech through the readjustment of established locutions than to evolve it from fresh and unworked elements, is open to debate.