HISTORICAL NOTICES. 
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SECTION 1L 
BEAUTIES AND PRINCIPLES OF THE ART. 
Capacities of the art. The beauties of the ancient style. The modern style. General 
beauty, and Picturesque beauty : their distinctive characteristics. Illustrations drawn from 
Nature and Painting. Nature and principles of Landscape Gardening as an Imitative art. 
The Graceful school. The Picturesque school. Simple beauty of the art. The principles 
of Unity, Harmony, and Variety. 
“ Here Nature in her unaffected dresse, 
Plaited with vallies and imbost with hills, 
Enchast with silver streams, and fringed with woods, 
Sits lovely.” 
Chamberlayne. 
“ II est des soins plus doux, un art plus enchanteur, 
C’est peu de charmer l’ceil, il faut parler au cceur. 
Avez-vous done connu ces rapports invisibles, 
Des corps inanimes et des etres sensibles ? 
Avez-vous entendu des eaux, des pres, des bois, 
La muette eloquence et la secrete voix ? 
Rendez-nous ces effets.” Les Jardins, Book I. 
EFORE we proceed to a detailed, and more 
practical consideration of the subject, let us oc- 
cupy ourselves for a moment with the con- 
sideration of the different results which are 
to be sought after, or, in other words, what 
kinds of beauty we may hope to produce by 
Landscape Gardening. To attempt the smallest work in any 
art, without knowing either the capacities of that art, or the 
