London, March 13.
A special attractions of Selfridge' nowadays is the robe: which answer: Jquestions. I am told "it will tell you anything, you simply can't stump) it" Years ago I remember my parents describing a. similar figure, called Zoe, shown by Maskelyne and Cox. which also answered questions. But Zoe was reasonably beautiful and human in appearance. The robot it just what you would expect of the word" savage and angular, with! grotesque Epstein features. (the idea ix not, net haps, original, but it seems to me that the worship fof machinery which is the most ce spicuous feature of the age is tu true cause of our stark gaunt archifecture, our angular, formless poett the defiant materialism of our liters ture. The one is the outcome of the lather, and from all alike all sugges tion of humanity and sentiment equally Impossible to define by mechanical accuracy—are deliberately and contemptuously expelled. Who was it who said, not long ago, that we must recover our faith before we Jean have any more beautiful art?
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