Home authors and home artists; or, American scenery, art, and literature . ns loved. And they had their reward. Theirpersons, their names, and the distinguishing features of their creeds,true and false, have mainly passed away, but the scenes of their earthlydevotions are treasured by all the good. Still we visit their ruins, tomourn over their departed glories; and still they live in fame, thoughnot in liie., We may not adopt the theology of those devout build-ers, but it would be well for us to emulate their taste, knowing thatwhile all sublunary things are transient, a thing of beauty is a
Home authors and home artists; or, American scenery, art, and literature . ns loved. And they had their reward. Theirpersons, their names, and the distinguishing features of their creeds,true and false, have mainly passed away, but the scenes of their earthlydevotions are treasured by all the good. Still we visit their ruins, tomourn over their departed glories; and still they live in fame, thoughnot in liie., We may not adopt the theology of those devout build-ers, but it would be well for us to emulate their taste, knowing thatwhile all sublunary things are transient, a thing of beauty is a joyfor ever ! The enthusiastic painter, Gainsborough, exclaimed on his death-bed,— We are all going to heaven, and Vandyke will be of theparty. May the reader be imbued with something more divine thanmere taste, that he may survive anguish or ecstasy in the energies offaith; and, soaring amid the infinite glories of the universe, at eachremove imbibing majestic charms of every hue and form, may he forever realize the high significancy of our theme,—Sceneey and X I E W N E A R M 0 N I) OUT. (ill: NT I N G TON.) The village of Rondout, founded in 1808, by the Delaware andHudson (anal Company, is situated near the Walkil] Creels on theHudson, about ninety miles above the city of New-York, and twomiles distant from Eddyville, where that Canal terminates. In the effective and mellow little picture from which our engrav-ing is taken, Mr. Huntington has pleasingly represented a secludedand romantic nook on the creek, near its entrance to the the background is a glimpse of the Catskill mountains. Thepicture is one of a pair belonging to Gen. John A. Dix, and is oneof flie happiest efforts of the artist in this department, especially inits coloring. AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN SCENERY COMPARED. BY J. FENIMORE COOPER. Eh ert intellectual being has a longing to sec distant lands. Wedesire t ascertain, by actual observation, the peculiarities of nation-,the differences which
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