The exuberances of "_nouveau art_" had already elicited the cry of the visitor (in Du Maurier's picture in 1894) on being shown round her friend's new house: "Oh, _Liberty_, how many crimes are committed in thy name!"--a joke repeated from an earlier volume.[8] Nine years later the angularities of the new "Artful and Crafty" furniture are held up to well-merited ridicule. But it is only right to add that in 1897, in "The Pendulum of Taste"--an imaginative forecast of the sale of old furniture in the year 1996--_Punch_ indulges in a comprehensive and entirely damaging review of the monstrosities of Victorian furniture and decoration: groups of fruit in wax; hideous gaseliers; terrible chromolithographs; a tea-cosy embroidered with holly-berries in crewel work; a kneeling statuette of the infant Samuel; chairs and sofa in mahogany, upholstered in horsehair; a Kidderminster carpet "with a striking design of large nosegays on a ground of green moss"; and a complete set of antimacassars in wool and crochet. Mr. Galsworthy's minute description of the "Mausoleum," in which old Timothy Forsyte, the last and most long-lived of his generation, lived or rather vegetated down to and through the War, is much on the same lines. But _Punch_, being nearly twice as old as Mr. Galsworthy, had spent a good part of his life amid these surroundings. [Footnote 8: The Botticelli joke in the same year was new. One man is afraid he made an ass of himself because, when asked if he liked Botticelli, he had said that he preferred Chianti, and his friend kindly explains that Botticelli is not a wine but a cheese.] [Sidenote: _Art Definitions_] The principles and theory of art-criticism, as I have noted above, did not trouble _Punch_ greatly in the first twelve or fifteen years of this period. He was mainly concerned with the robust expression of his likes and dislikes. But by 1908 he had become slightly infected by the new psychology of art, and by way of clarifying the atmosphere launched the following list of definitions:-- ART (A glossary for the opening of the R.A.) An Artist is a person who paints what he thinks he sees. An Amateur is a person who thinks he paints what he sees. An Impressionist is a person who paints what other people think he sees. A Popular Artist is a person who paints what other people think they see. A Successful Artist is a person who paints what he thinks other people see. A Great Artist is a person who paints what other people see they think. A Failure is a person who sees what other people think they paint. A Portraitist is a person who paints what other people don't think he sees. A Landscape Painter is a person who doesn't paint what other people see. A Realist is a person who sees what other people don't paint. An Idealist is a person who paints what other people don't see. The Hanging Committee are people who don't see what other people think they paint.