A RE LESS observation of 
Nature is responsible for 
some curious misrepresen- 
tations of her most simple 
facts. Even those of us 
who stand somewhat in the 
relation of nature teach- 
ers namely, artists, both 
<y draughtsmen and painters, and from whom 
we have a right to expect absolute fidelity 
are not free from our shortcomings as truth- 
ful chroniclers. Thus how often we see otherwise 
beautiful landscapes marred by features which 
rebel against all laws of natural philosophy of 
a storm sky above a sunlit scene, for instance, 
spanned by the arc of the rainbow, and with all 
the shadows of trees and other objects thrown 
