Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1845-02-28
Letters from a Landscape Painter; by
the author of' Essays for Summer hours
Boston: 1S45.

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This is the title of book which is d dedicated to the
Hon. George p. Marsh, and /. said to be a journal
Of the Authors peregrinations through the Northern
part of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine,
during the summer and autumn of lasi year. II
IS a rambling, desultory record of probably; every
idea, good or bad, that broke into the enclosure ofthe
authors brain during his tour. lie seems to be a
good hearted youngs,er, with no little Imagination, a
most absorbing passion for catching fish, and a re.
spectacle idea of himself. He NAV be moreover q
good landscape painter, though if he habitually works
as rapidly as he did one dav on the shores of Lake
Horizon, when he "execu,edn no less than sir land.
scapcs, we should prefer to employ some one else to
paint for us. He tells us he was "compell.d by his
inclinntions to abandon the cotton trade and sugar
line " and yet he don't seem TO have quite ESCAPED
from his traficking influences. for he gives yon to a
dollar, the price Mr.. Ward paid Cole for a landscape ;
and one is tempted 10 supply the exclamation for
him don't | wish / had such n lob He often,
however, gets quite dsen,hralled from all baser asso.
cations, and makes his lucubrations quite readable,
until YOU come TO a specimen of his er.recurring
twattle about matters which a man who pretends to
write n book, ought to know better than 10 print
For example, read the stuff on page SIS, and see if it
has one single attribute to rescue it from the charge
OF being as silly as human softness could make it.
Such things would be well enough in a private letter
to a most intimate friend; but only think of telling
all the world, in a book, and that not pretending TO
be a romance, how a girl, once beloved, has become
estranged because she iras iored,-tried to break the
poor authors heart, and missed her figure. But, he
tells us, she will have to answer for the deed
There is something dark about this that last word,
being italicised, may mean more than meets the eye,
and we ~shrewdly suspect the girl in question, having
bcguled him while in the tender mood, has purloined
one of his tile deeds, and then cruelty told him to be
gone! IL inns Is So She Ought to make reparaiion
without ue''y, pu' why a" we Inserf 1t were ar
u"s'"'''u' osN' as " "o"u VT un impractical lie one
w''n"u' "'''ns " oooN as 'arse MS nus 10 dwe'l upor
'o nn'''e''oe '''"'o"s o' ''S'e ana sense me tn
su''ao'e 'eVe'a'onS Oh private matters ana the Ire
q"'"' nnu'ue' VI 'ne Nnne fns'sh IN 'hese not u'
.s r,s,s' u II s Ut '"speaNao'e ch'P'e'
ue'ot'u ~ p"""eoo" ""u seNeFa' OF IT'S cIuHens
"".'" a'o"e d "'uuceu IS 10 take pen IN hahu aho
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> !" 'n's Que i ce''a"'y n'aNlhe n large uranght on
" se"''e""" . eoou "a'u'e. what Is sald oil nm is
VI "u' eno"s"' o"' w p'ocs' 'hat every 'h'hs III 10
u sau U d '''" III cohVersauoh' Is not proper 10 be
puo'sneu 10 me world. Tue author after dIlatlns
'Po" IL po'''s VIM" u's"i"eu'sh Mt MARSH, informs
vs. u" ,e "oe' "npe''"Ion"'e gravity 'hht MS
eng ooject III speaking oil nun IS TO =" introduce a
PdSS'"S no"ee Vi MS library, DC. ms passing
no"1e' '"us 'o"P1""en'ar'y introduced, ex'encs
u'0us"" "u''oe' .p'9es' anu CONSISTS enemy OF q
. :, '"e ooo"s' WIN" MA! prove oehefclai' since
" WI" '''' ~ d '''''oeuo' " MI haish 5 shouid
"r'.e u E' ,'S'
" yum u''o'o' d "'o'e c"aP'er 10 burlington,
Nv u''c' sc'""s '"Iou@h win MS profound reiiec.
nohs on 'ne surrounding scenery and associations, nc
npP'oaches Inc department OF personal twaltle with
io'""' so'eh'n'y' Inc Frst oil the three names be
io'e "ei>' &C ~c' heie IS no Unfair play, no ar
o"'a'y pu''hs one man before another, but 1t is a
'a' inference 'la' III decidlhg Inc monientous question
oil precedence, he wrote the names on slips of paper
ana put 'hehi IN n nat, drawing one at a time like u-
fo's at justice courts ms Is certainly equitable. Hc
''eh goes mo Ms hnsuness with vigor, taking each
name as IL comes from the nat, and besiowlng such
KIND and mcclure OF commentator a seemeth him
good. Alter administering to the accomplished and
gliIed Bishop OF the Diocese, and to the learned and
profound Professor of Moral Philosophy, a similar
course oil treatment 10 that bestowed on Mr.. Marsh,
ne Is on Inc point OF letting Burlington Ego thereof
w''nou' uA!' wheh 10! hehas i'rgp'ion something
"ah "'a' c''cnos hsi ll'es somewhere heTeabouts,
ana oi course he must come IN for a touch OF the
quality 81 Ahmyop"d9as, who never seems capable
oil drehh'lhs' asleep or awake, without seeing visions
oil "oul'-poN's ana specified trout; and so a vener'
able eX-fnelnoer OF congress Is politely hkened to
Jack FaIs'Sii,' because he is a size or two larger
than the s%crlbbIlng lad, ami a monsirons story IS to.l
about his eating a brook fall OF trout, THIS may
seem very funny to Charles Lnnnan, landscape PAIN
ter, but II sounds very nat ana not over and above
respectful 10 o'her ioIKs' one more victim Is sng'
ges'ed ny Inc 'neh'lon oil ms one 1t is our esilna-
oe 'owhsnha"' ooi'recH' lie TOO comes IN Tor q
snare oil thIs queer youngsters most equIvocal COM
mehuhuon' nhu Is 'he SUBJECT oil an amusing piece Of
logic mus ne mas never held any public sta
'o"' n ; 'h'ne'o'ea private cl'izen!' Ihat is VIVA
we ca'' SAFE taking "ha'a p'y the author would
not keep as near shore continually. II would be q
wods ,bronob his m,pnacrin,s ond h nrn ", :, mouo
The only Iad result for him would lie the terrible
dllnlnn'on OF the pages, which might obllge him lo
III ,"s or,'' - = n'o"ey, nu' would De q
readers.