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Mr. Downing may well be styled a national benefactor. If, as the poet tells us, 

 " A thing of beauty is a joy forever," 



what gratitude is due to that man who causes the land to smile with gardens, and ornaments 

 every roadside with homesteads of architectural symmetry ! This is a tempting subject, but 

 our limits forbid indulgence. The works of this gifted artist, which we are now about to 



