Examples of household taste . ar hasbeen to impress on the visitor how fortunate it would be for him to be intro- 5i6 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. duced to the holy of holies which Mr. Crcesus, with a farmers vocabulary,calls his parlor. Let us now see the triumphs of the highest moneyed taste. The carpethere is the best imitation of a landscape-painting that can be woven in dyedwool, the subject embracing a vast extent of country in a poetical region, likeone of Turners day-dreams in color, displaying miles of fertile valley, a majesticriver flowing through it, upon one of whose banks
Examples of household taste . ar hasbeen to impress on the visitor how fortunate it would be for him to be intro- 5i6 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. duced to the holy of holies which Mr. Crcesus, with a farmers vocabulary,calls his parlor. Let us now see the triumphs of the highest moneyed taste. The carpethere is the best imitation of a landscape-painting that can be woven in dyedwool, the subject embracing a vast extent of country in a poetical region, likeone of Turners day-dreams in color, displaying miles of fertile valley, a majesticriver flowing through it, upon one of whose banks rises as charming a piece of architecture as everadorned a away a brokenranee of mountains, andfarther still the peacefulblue sky, checkered onlywith cloudlets of fleecywhiteness and us walk across thiscarpeted floor and keepcount of what we shalltread upon. The firststep places us in thecentre of a herd of deerbrowsing in the valley,all of ones head andpart of anothers bodybeing thus hidden by a. Hindoo Water Dottle. No. 10 boot; the rfextstep is into the mostgraceful curve of theriver at its deepest part,then on to the top ofthe moated castle, thenceto the centre of a forestin the mid-distance,thence to the highestelevation of an Alpinemountain, and lastlyupon the heavens them-selves. Arriving-at thesham fireplace, we stepon a hearth-rug, thedesign for which is amonarch of the glenrising in a stately manner from his native heath, an excellent copy from one of Landseers moststriking pictures of stag-life. Retracing our steps, of course everything is seen the wrong way. Thetrees appear to grow down, and the river to run up; the highest part of thecastle is the ditch round the foundations, and the lowest its turrets and pin-nacles; even the red deer stand on their heads and graze with their hoofs;and whilst this all occurs to the details of the landscape, the general effect isso changed that the heavens are beneath and the earth above, which, takena
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