AS TO THE FIELD OF CRITICISM 



•Tl Vf1[ E have taken a brief look at Amer- 

 ^^^ lean landscape gardening. In do- 

 ing so we have glanced hurriedly 

 at certain American landscape gardeners and 

 their works. We have done nothing more, 

 however, than to catch a glimpse, as from 

 the window of a hurrying express train, of a 

 few of the nearest and most outstanding 

 facts. Even yet we have not the long- 

 wished opportunity for a detailed and 

 critical examination of materials; but we 

 must, at least, assume the critic's point of 

 view. It is a point of view which we have 

 seldom (almost never) yet attained, but a 

 point from which matters of large import 

 may be seen. 



It will be quite worth our while to 

 consider for a moment what relation 

 criticism bears to art, — the critic to the 

 artist. We do this, of course, with our 

 own special art in mind, but we must take 

 our instruction chiefly from what has been 



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