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in a periodical (" Science", Nov. 17, 1893) as a 

 comment upon a discussion of the * ' picture in the 

 landscape", will still further explain the subject 

 under consideration : 



" The inquiry in a recent issue, into the causes 

 of the unlike impressions which one receives from 

 a given landscape and from a painting of it, 

 seems to me to explain the subject admirably. 

 The correspondent supposes that the reason why 

 the picture appeals to us more than the land- 

 scape does is because the picture is condensed, and 

 the mind becomes acquainted with its entire pur- 

 pose at once, while the landscape is so broad that 

 the individual objects at first fix the attention, and 

 it is only by a process of synthesis that the unity 

 of the landscape finally becomes apparent. This 

 is admirably illustrated in photographs. One of 

 the first surprises which I experienced when I be- 



120. The proper or pictorial type of planting. 



gan the use of the camera was the discovery that 

 very tame scenes become interesting and often 



