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Rh beauty or grandeur; indeed, he seldom saw the beauty of a single object; he did little more than catalogue the things before him, and employ in writing poetry the same faculty in the same way as in pursuing his favorite studies of botany and entomology. Yet, with these limitations, what realist in painting could exceed in truthfulness and carefulness of detail this picture of a fall morning?—

Or this sketch of light in a decayed warehouse turned into a tenement for the poor?—

Nor is this carefulness of detail a trick, such as is sometimes employed, to give the