Finished ‘The Forerunner’. It is certainly the finest book I have read for it has opened to me the whole key of the Renaissance. The mystery of Leonardo is entrancing; his life is a lesson to all, especially to artists, in that it gives an idea, strong though undefined, of the glorious paths to be taken in the search of the beautiful, paths only accessible to genius and labour, and even then full of doubt and mystery. And from that path which he chose and which indeed seemed to him in the end to be an infinite one and unpassable by mortals, there shines the bright light of his calm though wearied spirit on all posterity.
This is a jumble of half-experienced ideas but from the whole book I have had one great lesson: enough of this dallying and postponing, these idle fruitless goings around, but down TO WORK!
