From  the  Courier  and  Enquirer.
Fine  Arts.  .  .  .  It  is  a  view  of  Niagara  Falls  which  will
cause  all  others  ever  painted  to  be  forgotten.  We  know  of  no
American  landscape  which  unites  as  this  does  the  merits  of  com-
position and  treatment;  for  in  painting  such  a  picture  the  choice
of  a  point  of  view  may  justly  be  called  composition.  We  have
yet  to  see  the  modern  landscape  of  any  school  which  surpasses  in
its  faithful  presentation  of  the  characteristic  facts  of  nature.    The

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Niagara  Falls

1857  picture  has  no  foreground,  to  speak  literally.  It  is  water  to  the
base  line,  and  water  everywhere.  The  only  land  that  appears  is
in  two  strips  of  shore  in  the  far  distance;  which,  by  the  way,  are
most  delicately  and  truthfully  painted.  The  view  is  from  a  point
on  the  Canada  side,  a  little  above  the  Fall,  the  whole  curve  of
which,  except  of  course  the  small  segment  next  to  the  spectator,  is
taken  in  at  once  by  the  eye.  The  point  of  view  being  elevated,
the  Fall  opposite  to  the  spectator  is  seen  at  its  full  height,  and
just  above  it  the  river  stretches  away  into  miles  of  broken  surface.
