...rgh Review, does not descend into the particulars, this being the same fallacy satirized by Ruskin, whose imaginary painter produced a quadruped which was a generalization between a pony and a pig. Balzac , who risked the details of buttons and tobacco pipes as fearlessly as Cooper, said of The Pathfinder, Never did the art of writing tread closer upon the art of the pencil. This is the school of st...