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ABSTRACT THE appreciation of scenery may be due to an association of ideas or it may be the outcome of physical satisfactions of the eye. The latter, as Dr. Vaughan Cornish notes, are
apprehended as emotions and not as local sensations, and thus are liable to escape recognition. In this small volume, the author has expanded with his accustomed fluency of exposition a
subject that he has made his own, the relation between aesthetic impressions of scenery and the habits of the eye. The eye unconsciously exercises a selective process among the constituent
features of a view and thus gives an impressions of enjoyment. Thus, for example, the apparent enlargement of the setting sun is due to a reduction of the field of vision, and the dwarfing
of mountainous scenery upon near approach is related to an unconscious enlargement of the field. _Scenery and the Sense of Sight_ By Dr. Vaughan Cornish. Pp. xii + 111 + 9 plates.
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