Excerpt from Evolution in Italian Art Grant allen, who has been described as naturalist, anthropologist, physicist, historian, poet, novelist, essayist, and critic, in the following pages applies his versatile mind, the mind of an expert in natural science, to kindred problems in artistic method. He was not a specialist in the criticism of pictures, yet a trained power of observation and a mind sensi tive to life in all its aspects, gives interest and point to his attitude. He had the sympathetic imagination of a born teacher; he was also a constant learner, and the fact that he was not professionally a critic of art, brought him in some ways nearer to the student, and enabled him to understand the difficulties of the beginner. The present series of papers appeared originally in the Pall Mall Gazette and the English Illustrated Magazine. They were based on observations made in Italian and other galleries, during many journeys arising from the sad necessity of spending Winters abroad on account of ill-health. Many years before these journeys were undertaken, preparation for such studies had been made in an investigation into the physiology of aesthetics, a treatise published in 1877. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.