taking averages from a large number of people, and in the present stage of education, or rather of ignorance, with regard to colour it is quite impossible to found any arguments upon isolated instances of preference for individual colours, or, even taking a wider view, upon those attaching to one end of the colour scale or the other.
Another critic who evidently felt the initial difficulty of appreciating rapid colour changes wrote in an excellent article upon the subject: "For those—and they are many—who love colour for its own sake, the new art seems to offer endless possibilities of pleasure, and their only grief will be that each beautiful colour is only seen for a short moment before it is succeeded by another." He went on to say that, "though the training of the last few thousand years or so has enabled us to detect tune in sound, we are as yet unable to detect it in colour." We have already discussed rapidity of change and its advantages, and with regard to "tune" it may be said that a melody is nothing more than a pleasing succession of notes arranged in some rhythmical
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