. Harper's weekly. ape is muffled iifortable gable-roofed inn sits broad and snug uponthe ground, tucked in by the drifts, and uncon-sciously suggesting a homely comfort and spacious-ness which belong to the ideal country barn and hay-stack near by—chapel of ease tothe Yankee temple of comfort—the exquisite traceryof the boughs of the trees against the gray sky—therustic bridge—the gentle hill—the brook, and theboy fishing through the ice—all compose a pictureso interesting and characteristic that the poets pub-lishers will greatly err if they do not make It thevignette of all futur
. Harper's weekly. ape is muffled iifortable gable-roofed inn sits broad and snug uponthe ground, tucked in by the drifts, and uncon-sciously suggesting a homely comfort and spacious-ness which belong to the ideal country barn and hay-stack near by—chapel of ease tothe Yankee temple of comfort—the exquisite traceryof the boughs of the trees against the gray sky—therustic bridge—the gentle hill—the brook, and theboy fishing through the ice—all compose a pictureso interesting and characteristic that the poets pub-lishers will greatly err if they do not make It thevignette of all future editions of the poem. Mr. Kensetts Lake George is now upon ex-hibition at Goopils. It was painted for a noted The others see them. It is a thoroughly characteristicwork, representing upon a large scale a certain as-pect of American climate and scenery which nopainter so exquisitely renders. The view is downthe lake toward Caldwell. The fore-ground is awood, traversed by a small stream which falls in a. all, and throughthem all, are the spirit and splendor of Nature inthe serene triumph of her summer repose. And itis Nature in her American costume. It is not Italy,nor the Orient, nor Switzerland, nor England, northo Tropics; it is the clear-breathed, soft-sluedAmerica of every day and of common ispnre landscape also. Nothing wins the mindfrom its brooding delight in the tranquil follows the bounding deer which the eyedoes not see. It lingers around the invisible muses upon the dusky departing race. It re- ing glides along the calm with the canoe of theJesuit explorers. Thus it has the highest charmof landscape arl, the undisturbed presentation of thescene leading on tu all n- in-un!. .1 .: le=s thoroughly is a scene upon the head waters of the Coloradoat the foot of the great range
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