ON SOME OTHER ELEMENTS OF 

 LANDSCAPE 



^^ HOSE who think of the landscape as 

 ^^ being diffuse and lacking composi- 

 tion frequently reach their inadequate 

 conclusions from giving too much heed to 

 details. To the child the finest painting 

 may contain nothing but a house, a water- 

 fall and a mountain, while the composition 

 — ^the relation of part to part — the chief 

 reason of being for the picture — is entirely 

 lost in his curious interest in details. In 

 the larger musical pieces, like the oratorios, 

 it is extremely hard for the unprofessional 

 listener to find anything more than a suc- 

 cession of disconnected airs and recitations. 

 Some passages may be pleasing, some 

 rather flat, many quite unintelligible; but 

 the oratorio as a whole does not stand forth 

 with any form and individuality. So the 

 details of landscape have their own values; 

 certain items please us; a few offend. 



There are, of course, very few details 

 of landscape which are offensive, — in nat- 



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