

and low colours, are my true friends; all 

 others are either pretenders or distant 

 acquaintances." 



I was not at all surprised to hear my 

 old friend express sentiments so utterly 

 at variance with those held by many peo- 

 ple who lay claim to her friendship; in 

 fact, they are sentiments which I find 

 every year becoming more and more my 

 own convictions. In every gallery of 

 paintings you will find the untrained 

 about the pictures on which the artist 

 has lavished the highest colours from his 

 palette ; those whose taste for art has had 

 direction and culture will look for very 

 different effects in the works which attract 

 them. It is among the rich and varied 

 low colours of this season, in wood and 

 field, that a true lover of Nature detects 

 some of her rarest touches of loveliness; 

 the low western sun, falling athwart the 

 bare boughs and striking a kind of sub- 

 dued bloom into the brown hill-tops and 

 across the furze and heather, sometimes 

 reveals a hidden charm in the landscape 

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