scenery-paintings

Updated: May 14, 2025

Especially in the early part of the book, we are constantly drawn away front the story by delightful little essays, sometimes read to us by the author himself, sometimes wrought into the conversations by playful anecdotes, by effective character-sketches, and vivid scene and scenery-paintings. They do not always materially help forward the story, nor do they always hinder it.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866