X THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



should be natural and not stiff or conventional 

 true, that is to say, to life. Here the scenes 

 selected by the Artist are some times wild, and 

 sometimes instinct with what may be called a 

 * feeling ' of domesticity. Yet there is no formal 

 intention to give especial meaning to these little 

 ' bits ' of scenery. They are intended to be typi- 

 cal, in a general way, and that is all. 



In the case of the larger drawings, however, 

 there is a more set and immediate purpose to 

 subserve, for the accomplishment of which the 

 Author has sought the particular and painstaking 

 co-operation of the Artist. This purpose is essen- 

 tially preceptive, the design being not to intro- 

 duce pretty scenery, generally representative of 

 Winter, but to introduce each in its own familiar 

 and characteristic landscape the wintry forms 

 of prominent and well-known trees. The forms 

 mostly selected are those of deciduous trees, 

 because, of course, it is these which exhibit such 

 marked differences of aspect in summer and in 

 Winter ; but some evergreen forms such as the 

 Cedar, the Stone Pine, and the Scotch Fir are 

 also represented, just as types of their class. The 



