The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-22
GLIMPSES OF AMERICA.
BEAUTIFUL PICTURES WHICH ARE
OF Absorbing INTEREST.
Famous Scenes Portrayed for the Bene-
At of Those Who Cannot Travel
Themselves-where They
Can Be Obtained.

Not all people can afford the expense
OF travel, but everybody has q strong
desire to look upon scenes famous for
sublimity, beauty, or romantic or his
toric association.
To such perfection has the art OF de-
lineation now been carried, that every
feature OF any landscape is rendered
with such fidelity that to look upon the
picture is like looking upon the scene
itself through field glass reversed.
Not only ia the outline clearly given,
but tn most delicate shades and the
richest glow of color are shown as in
nature.
No part of the world ia richer than
the Rocky mountains and Pacific coast
in majestic and sublime scenery; no.
where else can be witnessed more bril-
liant or delicate displays of color in the
landscape.
Artist and man of science, learned
and unlearned, writer and reader, all
who have ever looked upon the wonder
full canon of the Colorado have been
filed with awe, wonder and adairation.
The walle of art galleries in Europe, as
we'll as in America, have many pictures
OF that wonderful valley that has no
equal ia all the world, the Yosemite !;
and every good library has many vol
umes describing its msschless scenery.
The lakes of the Sierra Nevada noun
tains are admitted by all travellers to be
among the most beautiful bodies of
water in the world. Surrounded by
vast forests of the noblest trees, and set
in frames of lofty mountains clad in
perpetual snow, down whose sides rus b
beautiful streams, these lakes are
centers from which every variety OF
mountain scenery can be witnessed.
OF isolated peaks, towering in solitary
grandeur, the whole earth has no finer
examples than Shasta, Rainier and Hood.
Glad in their garments of snow, their
outlines resting sharply against the
deep blue sky; vast forests covering
their sides, and valleys OF unsurpassed
fertility, beauty and extent stretching
beyond the limits OF vision, these
scenes afford @ field unlimited in va
riety and ombinations of every element
that can delight the artist and afford
opportunities for the exercise of his
genius.
Nor is there any scarcity OF attractions
for the artist nearer home. Famous aH
are the scenes already alluded to, people
at a distance are as much. perhaps even
more. interested in winter scenes about
Los Angeles. At a time when the storm
king reigns supreme in the east and
deep snow hides every feature of the
landscape, except the mere outline of
the surface, here the deep green OF the
orange trees is gemmed all over with
golden globes, and the air is filled with
the fragrance of the snowy blossoms that
are the special emblems of love and joy.
The beautiful bays along the Pacific
ocean, crowded with bsthers at Christ
mas, as Long Branch, Nahsnt and New
port are crowded in July, offer scenes Ms
novel and delightful to eastern people as
anything else that art caa chow.
Ali this wonderful variety of scenery
-aublime. grand, SOLITARY, popuioue,
soft and rich in every element of beauty
lis shown with fidelity aud skill that
cannot fail to excite wonder and admit
ration in the work now being published,
and called Glimpses of America. 1t will
we'll repay any lover of the beautiful in
art and nature to call at hs HERALD
Office and look at the numbers of this
beautiful work already issued.