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Excerpt from The Desire of Beauty: Being Indications for Æsthetic Culture
To the astonishment of most of us, our hostess, who is well read in such matters, maintained that the term Fine Art originated in France; that it came first into use there about the middle of the eighteenth century; and that ac cording to the best French authority, Littré, the Fine Arts are painting, sculpt ure, music, architecture, poetry, and elo quence, with dancing as a subsidiary art.
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