THE LANDSCAPE BEAUTIFUL 



one to own a well-trained and vitalizing 

 contact with landscape. The ambitious 

 music student enriches his mind with the 

 best of literature and with frequent visits 

 to the art galleries. He ought also to know 

 the unwritten literature of the forests and 

 the unpaintable pictures of the evening 

 sky. The professional landscape archi- 

 tects certainly, of all the artist-world, ought 

 to make a comprehensive study of the 

 natural landscape in preparation for their 

 careers. Yet, as one reads President Eliot's 

 memoirs of his son, he feels as though 

 this artist stood almost alone in the 

 breadth and depth of the foundations he 

 laid. We can remember, to be sure, that 

 the two men who did most to advance 

 landscape art in America — Downing and 

 Olmsted — were devoted and lifelong stu- 

 dents of the fields, the hills, the rivers and 

 the trees. 



Most of all, however, should the land- 

 scape be better appreciated and more 

 generally used as a means of widening and 

 enriching the lives of the laity ,^-of common 

 men and women, — street-car conductors, 

 farmers and unimaginative real estate 

 speculators. It is one of the crying de- 



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