we must neglect something now to i ought to mean to seize the idea to a variety of details and sufficiently expressing it to neglect what is mere repetition accident or the true ideal of landscape therefore is the expression of the specific � not the individual but i the specific � characters of every object in their i any thing unworthy of being represented therefore must be some i thing which does not in nature express any idea now it may be doubted we think whether my thing in nature as distinct from man was felt by the old painters to be of itself tiie expression of an idea certain forms and of color and tone they admired and they admired the landscape just so far as it could be made to to their notions we are inclined to think with our author that the of the landscape by the celebrated painters of fi times was too often a mere fanciful of nature to suit the whim of the artist these views are supported by the feeling now common to all lovers of nature that the beauty of the landscape is a quality common to all infinitely various indeed in degree yet independent of any special characters the and notices charm of oar woods and fields is totally not only with all human interest but also with any striking details it is not felt only nor most in presence of wide or enriched of majestic mountains and � but of some familiar in which all the features are commonplace but exalted by some happy effect of light the scanty range of a lonely in an afternoon � the echoing stillness of a grove in winter � a few and or the details of a rock in the h of spring � are sufficient for the highest enjoyment that can be derived from nature this enjoyment is distinct in kind from the admiration of remarkable m und objects and their representation by the old painters it is a veneration and love for the total spirit of nature and not for selected features our limits would not permit any satisfactory illustration or discussion of this novel and subject we must refer those interested in the matter to our author s pages we may remark however that this of feeling towards nature between ancient and modem times is not confined to art but is seen also in science and religion the did not believe that the gods created the world but only that they governed it their power was a power over nature as something apart and originally independent of them and even after the christian era there was nothing like a science of nature natural in the time of da was either the art of managing the forces of nature or the art of with them nature being looked upon as mere dead matter or as tbe creation and kingdom of the devil i know not says our author that of the expressions of tion towards external nature to be found among heathen writers there are of which the balance and leading thought not towards the parts of her her they sought and her power they her teaching through both � ey understood never the pleasant influences of soft winds and ringing and shady of the violet couch and shade they received perhaps in a more noble way than we but they found not thing except fear upon the bare mountain or in the the they loved more for its sweet than its purple hues but the christian spirit finds the object of its love everywhere in what is harsh and as well as what is kind nay even in all that seems coarse and seizing that which is good and more sometimes at its table spread in strange places and in the presence of its enemies and its honey coming out of the rock than if all were into a less wondrous pleasure if then there now exists a sense for nature than foi it will follow that the aim of painters of landscape of the present day ought to be and very naturally may be hi than short and notices that of their and this as already remarked is the important point our author however goes further than this and to show in a detailed of the in nature and in existing pictures which the principal part of his first volume the actual superiority of the whatever be thought of this opinion this part of the book will probably be the most popular from the keen observation and appreciation of nature which it should we undertake to quote here it would be difficult to know when to stop and we can only recommend every lover of the country to buy it and read for himself the second volume contains of general principles of which though resting rather upon instinctive feeling than knowledge are yet in the highest degree interesting and valuable in this volume also are many keen of particular works of art the american is very neatly executed and with tolerable � but we hope the do not intend to put us off with half the work instead of the whole we are sorry to see no indications on the cover or title page that this is only the first volume � de et des par du en la de paris paris vo and this is the third work of the author on the same or a similar subject in he published a work on labor and the laboring classes in the first two chapters he treats of slavery he says liberty for all men and in all of life is the hope of the age the two great problems of france are � to found a new order of things in and in the west indies to restore the slaves to the condition of entire civil and social freedom he will not undertake to prove the of 