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whom I have the misfortune to difFer in this 

 discussion ; which authorities shall speak for 

 themselves in due time. 



The author of the Planter's Guide seems to 

 me to have lost sight of nature altogether, as 

 a model for our imitation in the subject before 

 us, when he would lead us to " acknowledge 

 " the beauty of those elegant forms, the oval, 

 " the circle, and the cone." We do acknow- 

 ledge them, and, with him, " experience the 

 " pleasure of contemplating smooth and soft 

 " surfaces, swelling undulations, and gentle 

 " transitions :" and, with him, admire their 

 beautiful prototype in the female form : we 

 also most cordially agree in his following 

 remark, that " there are few well educated 

 " persons who will for a moment compare to 

 " them a multitude of obtuse and acute angles, 

 " great and small, following each other in 

 " fantastical and unmeaning succession." We 

 do, I repeat, most cordially agree with him 

 in this position, as we cannot see what pos- 

 sible comparison can exist between them. 

 Surely the smooth soft surface, the swelling 

 undulations, and gentle transitions exhi- 

 bited by Nature in the most beautiful of all 

 her works, the female figure, did not suggest 



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