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Transcribed from the 1887 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk, proofed by Jennifer Austin. THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE by Henry James We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection.  Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, after t