A SHARP LOOKOUT. 35 



The writer's style, the quality of mind he brings, is 

 the vase in which his commonplace impressions and 

 incidents are made to appear so beautiful and signif- 

 icant. 



Man can have but one interest in nature, namely, 

 to see himself reflected or interpreted there, and we 

 quickly neglect both poet and philosopher who fail 

 to satisfy, in some measure, this feeling. 



