Art Out-of-Doors 
If they form a picture, it will give us the 
same sort of satisfaction that we get from 
a good landscape on canvas ; indeed, it w& 
do more than this, for the living picture 
will reveal new beauties day by day with 
the changing seasons, hour by hour with 
the shifting shadows. But if they form 
an inharmonious, unorganized mass, they 
will please us only by the beauty of this de- 
tail and that ; and even their details will be 
intrinsically less delightful than had they 
formed part of an agreeable general effect. 
Ruskin defines a good composition as one 
in which every detail helps the general 
beauty of effect ; but it may also be defined, 
conversely, as one which brings out the 
highest beauty of each of its details. 
A glance at any American town or sum- 
mer-colony of villas shows how deficient we 
are in artistic feeling when we deal with 
natural objects. The surroundings of our 
homes have not improved as rapidly as the 
homes themselves. Even in these we are 
still far from a general average of excellence. 
But I think we are on the right road to 
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