text:  They have not been painted by themselves because they would have their lives like the walls that encircle their town houses impervious to the curious excursive eye; they have not been painted by themselves because secondly the power of depicting graphically what they are in the daily habit of seeing is not in them not having been cultivated by study and practice; and thirdly not being stimulated to literary activity by that Muse of the imperative mood Necessity they find more pleasure in having these things brought under their eyes results of the mental toil and culture of others