NOTES ON LANDSCAPE PAINTING. 145 



the actual men and women (how differently dressed 

 to the conventional pictorial costumes !) would prepare 

 the mind to see and appreciate the colouring, the 

 design, the beauty — what, for lack of a better 

 expression, may be called the soul of the picture — far 

 more than forgotten, and nowadays even impossible 

 accessories. For our sympathy is not with them, but 

 with the things of our own time. 



