His education comes not by didactic, but by vital methods.
The art quality in a book is as difficult to analyse as the feeling for it; not because it is intangible or indefinite, but because it is so subtly diffused.

It is difficult to analyse because it is the breath of life in the book, and life always evades us, no matter how keen and exhaustive our search may be.

Most of us are so entirely out of touch with the spirit of art in this busy new world that we are not quite convinced of its reality.

We know that it is decorative, and that a certain pleasure flows from it; but we are sceptical of its significance in the life of the race, of its deep necessity in the development of that life, and of its supreme educational value.

And our scepticism, it must be frankly said, like most scepticism, grows out of our ignorance.