These are taken from The Adventures of the Copper Beeches by Arthur Conan Doyle. To the man who loves art for its own sake, remarked Sherlock Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Telegraph, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped this truth that in these little records of our cases which you have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made my special province. I get the last parts but I have trouble deciphering the first two lines to the man to be derived. Thanks in advance.
Holmes is saying that true lovers of art (whether the art is painting, writing, or detective work) get a lot more enjoyment out of the little details than out of the big picture. For example, a true art-lover looking at the Sistine Chapel painting of the Last Judgment would get more satisfaction out of the facial expression or hand gesture of one of the many tiny little figures being saved or damned than out of the huge drama of Judgment Day. Similarly, a true afficionado of detective work gets more out of apparently insignificant little details than out of what seem to be important and obvious clues. Holmes is complimenting Watson on being able to recognize this and to stress those details in his write-ups of the stories. But of course since Conan Doyle (not Watson) is the real author of the stories, he is really complimenting himself on his excellent writing ability!
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