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TllKSli articles were first published in The Girl's Ouii Paper ami 

 Woiiiau's Magazine. They were started with the idea of atisvveriiii; 

 under one general heading a number of queries that had come to me 

 through the post, from readers who were anxious to know how to paint 

 flowers, and )-et were living out of reach of Art Schools and Art 

 Teachers. ]^ut the first article proved so exceedingly popular that, 

 instead of satisfying the inquiring correspondent, it onh- w hetted her 

 appetite for more. Where the reader had sent one quer\' before, she 

 now sent half-a-dozen all arising out of her increased interest in the 

 subject of flower-painting. 



And matters were further complicated whenever we reproduced 

 one of Miss Angell's Mouer Pictures on the cover of the magazine : 

 thousands of readers were immediately fired with the ambition to 

 paint similarly beautiful groups and flower studies. And of course 

 they wrote to the Editor to know how it was to be done ! 



I asked Miss Angell if she could give us another article, and she 

 did so. Then we set to, and discussed a third and a fourth, and as 

 we went on we saw yet further possibilities. 



Each article found an increasing number of admiring readers, until 

 by the time we had got to the end of the series, it seemed advisable 

 to issue them in book form, as our back numbers were out of print. 



I think this book will appeal, not only to the amateur artist, but to 



