Impressionism is the generalizing of the subject-matter as a whole and the expression of only its salient features. The extreme realist or detailist of the Ruskin type has for years been insisting that a spade was a spade and should be painted to look like a spade; that a spade was not a spade until every nail in the handle and every crack in the blade became apparent.

At one stroke his dashing raiment gave him high superiority over Johnnie Watson and other rivals who might loom.

Many children at our school have fallen prey to the 'flu bug.

One would have expected something more perfected from a don—and a lecturer at McGill at that.