Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vigorous flowers which, coming with the early summer, attain their full splendour in July and August, and linger on into the first few days of September; but the veritable blossoms of Autumn which come with the season and remain open until cut down by the early frosts of winter. Yet these, beautiful as they are and conspicuous, in places, by their abundant presence, appear to be obliterated by the more pervading hues of autumnal leafage. Content, so to speak, to suffer by comparison, during the summer—whilst they are dressed in their garb of sober green—with the flowers which they bear and serve by contrast to bring into relief, the leaves, in the later season, change colour, and when their early ornaments are faded and gone, blossom, themselves, into tints of mellow beauty, and oftentimes into hues of splendour which enrich the landscape as far as the eye can see. Pencil and pallet have been industriously employed, since landscape art first commenced to copy Nature, in the work of delineating on paper and canvas the especial, prominent, or typicalfeatures of the seasons; and in this work of reproduction Autumn has been fully represented. Photographic skill has, too, been brought into play—and with marvellous and increasing success —to delineate the scenes of Nature in fac-simile, and when it shall have succeeded, as it seems not unlikely that it will, ere long, in reproducing not merely the forms but the colours of natural objects, it will have left little else for the landscape painter but imaginative subjects, or imaginative combinations of ' effects,' which it may not be in the power of photography to compass. If 'high art'—as art—should then suffer, it will merely be another instance of the triumph of science and Nature over mere art. Meanwhile we depend, mostly, for...