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married by our friend, the Reverend Charles Beard of 

 Liverpool. We passed a happy honeymoon on the 

 Continent. I introduced my wife to my Heidelberg 

 friends and to Bunsen, who gave us a true German 

 welcome and one of those endless suppers which are so 

 characteristic of the " Vaterland." 



On returning from abroad, we went up to the North 

 of Scotland to visit my wife's family at a shooting 

 near Alness in Easter Ross. There we amused our- 

 selves, among other things, by photography, at which 

 my wife was a great adept, working at first with wet 

 plates and afterwards preparing her own dry ones ; 

 for in those days the art and practice of photography 

 had not arrived at the point at which "you touch the 

 button and we do the rest." 



Some years ago my wife obtained a gold medal and 

 two silver ones from the Photographic Society for her 

 photographs. One of these was a fisherman, of which 

 I reproduce a copy. The other day (1905) my friend 

 Professor Chandler of Columbia College told me that 

 on a former visit to this country he inquired from the 

 Stereoscopic Company for the best photograph by an 

 English amateur, for insertion in an American journal, 

 and they at once handed him a copy of the fisherman. 



There are few things more enjoyable than a fine 

 autumn at a hospitable Scottish house, and the plea- 

 sant time we spent at Invereshie always remains 

 in my mind. The house was. situated at the foot of 

 the Cairn-Gorm Hills, clothed on the lower flanks 

 with magnificent pine-woods. There it was that 

 Landseer drew some of his best-known pictures of 

 Highland life, and in one of the lodges in the forest 

 I remember the rough walls were covered with char- 

 coal drawings of stags and hounds by his master-hand. 

 Then on the higher peaks, amidst the snow which still 



