Giotto was the first and greatest innovator in paintingthe father of real painting; Masaccio was the second.

And Mistral, in his memoirs, gives an amusing account of a philological battle fought over the letter "s" in a room behind one of the Marseilles bookshops between "the amateurs of trivialities, the rhymers of the white beard, the jealous, the grumblers," and the young innovators of the "félibrige.

Prejudice, Mr. Effingham, is a sad innovator on justice.

And this confused mass of Reformers and Reformed had to face an old, a powerful, and a strongly constituted church, which looked upon the innovators as rebels over whom it had every right as much as against them it had every arm.

As might be expected, Bill treats these sacrilegious innovators with the contempt they so justly merit.