It is therefore with a sense of liberation that we now turn back to a few artists who, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, foresaw that material progress would end in annihilating humanity, that nature and humanity, hand in hand, are more sacred than all the shells that could ever be produced, the guns that could ever be mounted or the laws that could ever be written. With a sense of spiritual release we revert to those who dreamed of the great return to nature--to Rousseau, Whitman, Gauguin, as well as to others who, although perhaps lesser men than they, followed in their path--David Thoreau, Richard Jefferies. They were the prophets of the new gospel that must some day prevail--the gospel that will set humanity above material progress and nature above æsthetic negation. Their vision was of something not in themselves but of something higher and nobler, as Gauguin knew when he deliberately caricatured himself in _Contes Barbares_. As he knew also, the vision was of something stated only fragmentarily, inscribed as a promise, a foretaste, an indication of what might be. In Rousseau's prose, in Whitman's poetry and in Gauguin's painting we see the only gleam of hope for self-tortured humanity, and the promise of a land where nature and man are one and where reigns a peace that passes all understanding. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CONSULTED WORKS OF BIOGRAPHY: 1. Paul Gauguin par Jean de Rotonchamp, Imprimé à Weimar par les Soins du Comte de Kessler et se Trouve à Paris, chez Edouard Druet, Rue de Faubourg Saint Honoré, No. 114. 1906. Edition limited to 250 copies. 2. Gauguin, by Charles Morice. Floury, Paris, 1919. This and the preceding work are the standard sources of Gauguin's life. 3. Lettres de Paul Gauguin à Charles Daniel de Monfreid. Paris, Cres, 1919. 4. White Shadows in the South Seas, by Frederick O'Brien. New York, The Century Co., 1920. A travel book, with a few new sidelights on Gauguin's final period. 5. Avant et Après. Paul Gauguin aux Marquises. 1903. 100 copies only published in photo-reproduction from the original manuscript. A translation into German has also appeared. Kurt Wolf Verlag, Berlin, 1920. WORKS OF ART CRITICISM IN ENGLISH: 1. Modern Painting, by Willard Huntingdon Wright. New York, The John Lane Company. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Paul Gauguin, His Life and Art, by John Gould Fletcher