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sculptor study every bone and muscle with the 

 accuracy of the naturalist or the professional anato- 

 mist. The statue which seems like an enchanted 

 form of Arabian tales, ready to start into life at the 

 first blast of the trumpet, and the charger with 

 expanded nostril and rearing form, so life-like that 

 he seems bounding from his granite pedestal, were 

 no creations of mere casual study. But days and 

 weeks, the points of living expression were fixed by 

 the same study that must be given by the Audu- 

 bons and Agassiz of Natural History. 



"With painting arid sculpture, in ancient times, 

 architecture was intimately connected. Though 

 this relation can never be broken, it is not now so 

 marked. With us, architecture, so far as it relates 

 to adorning and beauty of expression and in these 

 respects alone can it be denominated a fine art is 

 intimately connected with landscape gardening. 

 This may not be true of public buildings they still 

 must borrow their ornaments from ancient patterns ; 

 but so far as architecture can be applied to the 

 homes of the people, it is united with gardening, 

 which has been raised from the rank of the useful 



