An Introduction

A distinctive feature of our present age is the love for a grand and beautiful scenery. All the world enjoys to see a beautiful landscape. Nature is loved for her apart from all her uses to man. Not only painters, but society as a whole, recognizes the picturesqueness of its waste places. A mountain is no more a huge lump of earth, stone or rock -- water is no longer a means to satisfy the thirst of man and beast. These things are beginning to display to the human mind the greatness of the...