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LETTERS
FROM
A LANDSCAPE PAINTER.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
“ESSAYS FOR SUMMER HOURS.”
(Charles Lanman)
Gentlemen, let not prejudice prepossess you. I confess my discourseis like to prove suitable to my recreation,—calm and quiet.Izaak Walton.
BOSTON:
JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY.
MDCCCXLV.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, by
Charles Lanman.
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
BOSTON:
PRINTED BY THURSTON, TORRY AND CO.
31 Devonshire Street.
CRITICAL NOTICES
OF
LANMAN’S “ESSAYS FOR SUMMER HOURS.”
By John Neal, Esq.
“A book of two hundred and fifty pages, containingsome twenty essays or thereabouts,—and perhaps more,—uponall sorts of pilgrimages: upon the woods andthe city, Morning and Evening, the Dying Year, Literature,Mirth and Sadness, the Early Called, the Painter’sDream, &c., &c., &c.; written with great simplicity andsweetness,—untainted with affectation, except in two orthree slight instances,—original, tender, and at timesabsolutely touching.”
From the N. Y. Evening Post, Edited by W. C. Bryant.
“The volume, of which we have copied the title, iscomposed of essays on various subjects, the fruit, as theauthor tells us, of the leisure of last summer. They areagreeably written, with a vein of poetic embellishment.”
From the Democratic Review.
“‘Essays for Summer Hours,’ is the title of a pleasinglittle tome, by Charles Lanman, comprising a seriesof sketches of American scenery, interspersed with poeticalallusions to incidents and characters which are veryharmoniously blended, and agreeably presented. Wehope this work will prove successful, and form the precursorof many other contributions to our elegant literaturefrom the same pen.”
From the Southern Literary Messenger.
“This well printed, and handsome little volume, embracesa series of eighteen essays; the most of themfounded in American scenery and associations. Some ofthe topics are furnished by the West, the native place ofthe young author; he has certainly done justice to thefresh scenes that are spread out in that interesting portionof the country. The talent of the writer is descriptive;he has painted, with remarkable fidelity and beauty,some of the most striking points of Western life. Hislanguage is chaste and well selected; and many of themoral reflections, growing out of the several subjectswhich he has selected for his essays, are expressed in anexceedingly interesting and even touching manner.”
From the Boston Miscellany.
“This a pleasant little volume of quiet Essays, writtenby a warm lover of nature, and dealing principallywith descriptions of natural scenery, or the developmentof simple