text: --are very minute truths which whether true or false are of very little importance to art unless it be to those branches of art which may treat the whole of each particular truth as the whole of a subject a line of art that may produce a multitude of works like certain scenes of dramatic effect surprising to see once but are soon powerless--can we hope to say of such "decies repetita placebunt?" They will be the fascinations of the view schools nay may even delight the geologist and the herbalist but utterly disgust the imaginative