The Shadow of John Wallace

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Excerpt from The Shadow of John WallaceThe ?at country is full of a subtle interest. On one hand are the farms and grass-lands by which the simple' folk upon the other, shut out by ?ats and low hills of sand, forever rolls the sea. There' is a mellow haziness' in the atmosphere, a harmony in form and color, a wonderful prevailing tone, which makes the pensive painter fancy him self once more among the sea-walls and dunes of Holland, while the happy colorist, who 'wanders in land among the ancient farmlands and comes back with sketches of gray wall flecked with the soft light and shade that filter greenly through willow trees,' de claims the landscape to be a piece taken out of the heart of Brittany.