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also due for arranging for the use of some beautiful 

 Norwegian photographs one of which, Fig. 32, shows the 

 schoolboys at work clearing the ground, another, the 

 frontispiece, shows the girls of Roken standing in a 

 plantation of about their own age, which had been 

 planted by school children 12 years before. 



Mrs Gregson is a former student of Newnham College, 

 and studied in Cambridge under Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 

 whose well-known volumes have supplied many of the 

 illustrations used here. Her lessons are adapted to 

 classes where the ages range from 14 to 12 or even 

 younger, that is to the higher standards of elementary 

 schools, to preparatory schools, to the lower forms of 

 secondary schools and especially to those who are 

 taught privately at home. 



Mrs Gregson has shown in numerous examples that 

 style of large, clear, accurate drawing which every pupil 

 may be expected to attempt. Teachers requiring a 

 'key' may refer to the exquisite drawings in Ruskin's 

 Modern Painters, and to the latest standards of fidelity, 

 Henry Irving's photographs in The Nature Book. 



We must not let the trees hide the wood from us. 

 The study of the trees is only the beginning of the 

 study of the wood. The wood means far more than its 

 trees alone. There is the undergrowth of brambles or 

 of bracken, the carpet of spring flowers, ferns, mosses, 

 dead leaves or pine needles. Then there are the insects, 

 the purple emperor butterflies aloft and the ringlets in 

 the glades. There are beetles boring in the rotten 

 wood ; indeed, a whole book has been written (by 

 Mr Gillander of Alnwick) on Forest Entomology. After 

 the insects come the birds the tits, the gold-crest, 

 the treecreeper, the woodpecker ; and the owls and 



