THE ART AND THE ARTIST. 7 



systematic classification of 2^rinciples and a somewhat 

 didactic treatment of details may be excused. 



The order and relative importance of the several 

 principles may be understood most easily by a study of 

 the analytical outline. It is conceived that unity, vari- 

 et}^, character, i)ropriety and finish are the fundamental 

 characteristics of any landscape, — that these qualities are 

 ultimate and coordinate, though by no means equally 

 important. Each work of landscape art is to be tested 

 sej^arately for each of these qualities. The following 

 pages explain in order how these tests are to be variously 

 satisfied. 



