PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS 



2. At what distance do trees give the best 

 effects? Running water? Still water? 

 Lawn ? M eado w ? 



3. Would different atmospheric or weather 

 conditions make different answers neces- 

 sary to any questions on this sheet? For 

 instance? 



4. Would this course of views be worth while 

 in midwinter? 



Of course, these suggestions will by no 

 means exhaust the subject, and I hope they 

 have not tired the reader. They will show, 

 at any rate, that the native landscape, so 

 far from being diffuse and lacking in. 

 pictorial qualities, is just as capable of 

 critical enjoyment as the works of Whistler 

 or Rodin; or that, instead of being outside 

 the reach of intelligent study, the land- 

 scape, in fact, offers an incomparable and 

 inexhaustible material for the development 

 of the aesthetic faculties. In particular, I 

 hope it will seem that these opportunities 

 are accessible to the pupils of the common 

 schools, who, most of all, lack and deserve 

 aesthetic instruction, and whom I would 

 most gladly serve. 



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