d darks
always yields, a sparkle, running through the whole and easily printed.
The works of Mr. Wenzell as a single example of this quality, or of Mr.
Henry Hutt, in lighter key, will be found to gain much of their force from
a very few accents of dark. On the other hand when the work deals with a
medium tone and darks, with few high lights, these gain such importance as
to control the important items.

The value of the middle tint, _when not_ used as the under tone of a
picture is apparent as balancing and distributing the light and dark
measures of objects. When, for instance, these three degrees of tone are
used, if the black and white are brought together and the middle tone
opposed a sense of harmony results. The black and white if mixed would
become a middle tone. We feel the balance of measures without synthesis
or inquiry. Many of the compositions of Tolmouche of two and three female
figures are thus disposed, one figure having a gray dress and one a black
dress and white waist, or a black figure and white are placed together and
opposed to a figure in gray. In Munkacsy's "Milton Dictating to His
Daughters," the broad white collar of the poet contrasted with his black
velvet suit, is well balanced and distributed by the medium tones of the
three dresses.

[Fundamental Forms of Chiaroscuro; Whistler's Portrait of his Mother;
Moorland--E. Yon; Charcoal Study--Millet; The Arbor--Ferrier]
[Fundamental Forms of Chiaroscuro, Continued; Landscape--Geo. Inness; The
Kitchen--Whistler; St. Angela--Robt. Reid; An Annam Tiger--Surrand; The
Shrine--Orchardson; Monastic Life--F. V. DuMond]

An accent is forcible in proportion as its own unit of intensity is
distributed over the space on which it is placed. Take for instance a
picture in India ink of a misty morning wherein the whole landscape may be
produced with a small drop of ink spread in light gradations upon ten by
fourteen inches square. An object in the foreground one by two inches in
which the same measure of black is used will of course possess powerful
attraction. If, however, this measure be expanded the gain in bulk will
be balanced by the loss in intensity. Less attraction for the object is
given either by increasing the intensity of the surrounding tint or
decreasing its extent. In the two pictures by Gerome of lions, the one in
the midst of the vast space of desert obtains its force from its dark
isolated in a large area. I