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For the soul of art lies in what art can suggest, and nothing is half so suggestive as the half expressed, not even a double entente. To hint a great deal by displaying a little is more vital to effect than the cleverest representation of the whole. The art of partially revealing is more telling, even, than the ars celare artem.
The fact was that an unlucky epigram by the Mr. Gurgoyle in question at Mrs. Featherstone's expense, which of course had found its way to her, had produced a coolness on her part, as Caffyn was perfectly well aware. "Ars est celare artem," as Mr. Bancroft remarks at the Haymarket, he said lightly.
"Mistigris, 'ars est celare bonum," said his master. "I thank you very much, monsieur," said the count to Mistigris's master, next to whom he now sat. The minister of State cast a sagacious glance round the interior of the coach, which greatly affronted both Oscar and Georges. "When persons want to be master of a coach, they should engage all the places," remarked Georges.
But he has the ars celare artem. What can be more natural than the transition from the praises of young Nero to Hannibal's fine lament? from those of Augustus to the speech of Juno? Yet these are effected with the most subtle skill.
The Indians have become comparatively seedy and second-hand individuals; the scenery, with occasional exceptions, looks worn; the machinery creaks and betrays itself, no longer possessing the ars celare artem.
Yet, for all this, I am not one of those who feel that in a family everything should bend to the sway of these little people. They are the worst of tyrants in such houses: still, where children are, though the fact must not appear to them, nothing must be done without a wise thought of them. Here, as in all high art, the old motto is in force, "Ars est celare artem."
The one will be the broad and clear-cut channel of naturalism, down which will course a drama poignantly shaped, and inspired with high intention, but faithful to the seething and multiple life around us, drama such as some are inclined to term photographic, deceived by a seeming simplicity into forgetfulness of the old proverb, "Ars est celare artem," and oblivious of the fact that, to be vital, to grip, such drama is in every respect as dependent on imagination, construction, selection, and elimination the main laws of artistry as ever was the romantic or rhapsodic play: The question of naturalistic technique will bear, indeed, much more study than has yet been given to it.
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