Excerpt from A Guide to Pictures, for Beginners and Students But it is not this view Of pictures that we are going to talk about in the present book. I shall have very little to say about the subjects Of pictures partly because you can find out for yourselves What subjects interest you; but mostly, because the sub jcet Of a picture has SO very little to do with its beauty as a work Of art. For it is this view Of a picture, as being a work Of art, that I shall try to keep before you. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.