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Which is the same thing. Art was given for that ; 

 God uses us to help each other so, 

 Lending our minds out. 



Here Miss North's collection at Kew is of special interest ; ^ 

 and although the botanist is apt to turn away disappointed 

 with the lack of arrangement of this wealth of sketches, 

 and the artist with their pictorial quality, both will admit 

 at least that here is a beginning full of suggestiveness : and 

 if so, why should not both go to work together, — student 

 working for artist, and artist for student, — until a permanent 

 gallery of landscapes and vegetation is the result ; an ever- 

 widening panorama, by help of which we may vividly 

 realise what the world is like ? 



But we cannot all travel like Miss North, it may be 

 said. Still, make the best of it ; look at our familiar walks 

 like geographical botanists, even within a couple of hours' 

 walk of a great manufacturing town, and behold, each little 

 scene stretches itself out over the world-map as if by en- 

 chantment. Shall we stroll along the sand-dunes blue with 

 the waving of their binding-reed ? What we see is half 

 the eastern shore of our whole island, and well-nigh the 

 whole western coast of the Low Countries opposite, whence 

 we may wander with the sea-birds along the whole length 

 of Prussia, and over to Sweden, or up to the Gulf of 

 Bothnia. Or to the cliffs, with their bright tufts of sea- 

 pink and bladderwort, their close-set turfy slopes ? This is 

 the coast of Brittany and Norway ; and these two pictures 

 will well-nigh frame for us the whole North Sea. Or shall we 

 sketch these stretches of unreclaimed moorland, here golden 

 with whin or purple with heather, and there with dwarfish 

 willows rising above an undergrowth of grass and sedges, 



^ See the Kew Catalogue of North Collection by Mr. W. B. 

 Hemsley, and Recollections of a Happy Life, being the Autobiography of 

 Mariantie North. 2 vols. London, 1892. 



