"My dear Sir Herbert, allow me to congratulate you on your keen
artistic perception! I believe you are the only person, besides myself,
who has hitherto been struck by those definite but undefinable traits
of similarity. Mr. van Koppen may well be proud of your penetration--"
"Thank you," said the other, immensely flattered. "That is what I am
paid for, you know. But now, how do you account for the likeness?"
"I will tell you my own hypothesis. I hold, to be brief, that they both
came from the same workshop."
"The same workshop! You amaze me."
"Yes, or at all events from the same school of craftsmen, or some
common fountain of inspiration. We know lamentably little of the art
history of even a great center like Locri, but, judging by the hints of
Pindar and Demosthenes, I think there may well have been--there must
have been--consummate local masters, now forgotten, who propagated
certain methods of work, certain fashions in form and feeling and
treatment which ended, naturally enough, in a kind of fixed tradition.
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