. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . water, rock, and foliageis richly elaborate, as a cathedrals might be, if carved anddamaskeened all over with intricate patterns and colors, eachhelping to explain the ideals of its builders. One whole sideof Niagaras charm is unfelt unless every great and little pas-sage of its waters is learned by heari:, and every spur and recessof its shores, and especially of its islands, is lovingly explored. Moreover, the eye alone can not really perceive any highbeauty of any sort. It needs the help of emotion, and theright kin
. Detroit, "The city of the strait"; historical, descriptive, illustrated . water, rock, and foliageis richly elaborate, as a cathedrals might be, if carved anddamaskeened all over with intricate patterns and colors, eachhelping to explain the ideals of its builders. One whole sideof Niagaras charm is unfelt unless every great and little pas-sage of its waters is learned by heari:, and every spur and recessof its shores, and especially of its islands, is lovingly explored. Moreover, the eye alone can not really perceive any highbeauty of any sort. It needs the help of emotion, and theright kind of emotion develops slowly. True sight means thedeep, delicate, and complete sensations that result, not fromthe shock of surprise, but from the reverent, intelligent sub-mittal of sense and soul to the special scheme that the greatArtifex has wrought and the special influence it exerts. Wecan not see anything in this way if we hurry. Above all, wecan not see Niagara, the worlds wonder, which is not a singlewonder and yet is a single creation complete in itself — a10. The Dufferin Islands. volume of wonders bound compactly together and set apartbetween spacious areas of plain, as though nature had said, Here is a piece of art too fine, too individual, to be built intoany panorama, to need any environment, except the dignity ofisolation. Such a volume must indeed be studied page bypage; but it must also be read so often that it will leave usthe memory of a harmonious whole as well as of a thousandtine details. And the best season for Niagara? Each has its own sometimes gives the place an arctic picturesqueness, adazzling semi-immobility, utterly unlike its affluent, multi-colored summer aspect; but one could hardly wish to see itonly in winter, or in winter first of all. It is most gorgeouslymulticolored, of course, when its ravine and its islands com-memorate its long-dead Indians by donning the war-paint ofautumn. And it is most seductively fair in early sprin
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