SUGGESTING SOME PRACTICAL 

 APPLICATIONS 



-^^HERE are two ways of studying 

 ^^ landscape, as there are of studying 



every art. These may be somewhat 

 accurately called the professional and the 

 amateur methods. The professional art 

 student expects to earn a livelihood by 

 painting pictures or designing buildings. 

 The amateur expects only to learn to enjoy 

 pictures, architecture or music. More 

 strictly speaking, the amateur expects to 

 enlarge his own capacities of enjoyment, 

 and, if he have a proper flavor of altruism 

 in him, he doubtless hopes to make his 

 enlarged capacities and powers transmit 

 some true satisfactions to other lives. 



An intelligent appreciation of land- 

 scape seems to have been too rare among 

 all sorts of art students, both professionals 

 and amateurs. It has been thought quite 

 necessary that a good actor should know 

 literature and painting and music, but 

 Joseph Jefferson has been almost the only 



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