text: " Notwithstanding however that our graduate of Oxford puts his "demonstrations" upon an equality with "the demonstrations of Euclid " and "thinks it proper for the public to know that the writer is no mere theorist but has been devoted from his youth to the laborious study of practical art " and that he is "a graduate of Oxford;" we do not look upon him as a bit the better judge for all that seeing that many have practised it too fondly and too ignorantly all their lives and that Claude and Salvator and Gaspar Poussin must according to him have been in this predicament and more especially do we decline from bowing down at his dictation when we find him advocating _any_ "_surer ground than feeling or taste_