The greater the art-sense in the person addressed, the more had better be left to it.

Now in Japan the public is singularly artistic.
In fact, the artistic appreciation of the masses there is something astonishing to us, accustomed to our immense intellectual differences between man and man.

Sketches are thus peculiarly fitting to such a land.
Besides, there is a quiet modesty about the sketch which is itself taking.

To attempt the complete even in a fractional bit of the cosmos, like a picture, has in it a difficulty akin to the logical one of proving a universal negative.

The possibilities of failure are enormously increased, and failure is less forgiven for the assumption.
Art might perhaps not unwisely follow the example of science in such matters where an exhaustive work, which takes the better part of a lifetime to produce, is invariably entitled by its erudite author an Elementary Treatise on the subject in hand.
To aid the effect due to simplicity of conception steps in the Far Oriental's wonderful technique.