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VIBRATION little rotunda behind the Palais de l'Industrie; and the bewilderment and scorn with which it was received by the critics and the older painters. I can remember also the heroic struggle which they made against apparently hopeless odds; and we all know how they finally won the long fight, proving their point so conclusively that no one to-day thinks of questioning it. But while all painters now admit that the prismatic theory of light as applied to the art of painting is both scientifically correct and artistically admirable—that it is practically impossible to secure luminosity in a picture without some sacrifice to the principle, it is nevertheless open to question if the crude and primitive method invented by the French Impressionists is necessarily the last word on the technical side of the matter. We must have [35]