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This mellifluous little volume is intended for high school students, and consists in an elaboration of lectures given to them upon the subject of æsthetics.
The tenor of the book can be caught in the following quotation from the last chapter whose theme is that life itself is 'the art of arts' and which opens with some rather far-fetched analogies between art and life: 'All of us are called every day of our lives to this loftiest and all-inclusive fine art; and the need is thus to create and enjoy beauty in daily life' (p. 69).
In the opinion of the reviewer, much of this inspirational writing turns out to be sheer fudge. The post-Victorian high school student cannot get in this book a very comprehensive view of what modern æsthetics has to say about 'beauty in nature and in art'.