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PAINTING, CARVING, A XI) GILDING. 



" Mark 

 How Nature paints her colours." 



THE Temple of Nature is no plain puritanic place of worship. 

 It is rather the model of a gorgeous cathedral, and, like a 

 sacred edifice of the latter description, it stands distinguished 

 not alone by features of solemn grandeur the "long-drawn 

 aisle" whose arches and pillars are the growth of ages, the 

 azure "vault*' whose lamps are suns and worlds but no less 

 by a profusion of adornment worthy of the mighty fabric. 

 Flowing draperies of foliage, hung on high as curtains or as 



