text: " But here is a mistake _in initio_; for is not the Ideal too Nature? We should have rather expected a disquisition to elucidate this point; but our author prefers passing away from the real question to indulge in a little severity on the admirers of the Ideal which Ideal we are persuaded he never understood; for he considers evidently that the "ideal beauties " with the "magic truth" of the Dutch school in execution would be perfection