Art Out-of-Doors 
natural scenes, but they are naturalistic, in 
idea as well as in effect. Suggestions and 
hints for them may be found in wild Nat- 
ure, although no patterns. They speak to 
the mind in Nature’s language, although 
more clearly and exquisitely than she ever 
speaks herself. No study of architecture 
could have taught a man how to conceive 
them, and no degree of architectural taste 
could have enabled him to perfect them. 
Nature was this artist’s school-master, and 
not merely the store-keeper from whom he 
bought raw materials to be treated after 
methods of his own inventing. If no scenes 
like this existed in Mr. Sedding’s England, 
nothing to show him a true original for his 
charming verbal picture, the fault did not 
lie, as he thought, at the door of landscape- 
gardening ; it should be laid to the fact that 
no real artist had practised landscape-gar- 
dening in the regions he explored. 
But the kind of art which he did love 
is also worthy of our love, and it is time 
that we loved and understood it better. 
It is not, as we are apt to think, a kind 
which cramps an artist within narrow bor- 
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