NOTE ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Publishers feel that they have been pecul- 

 iarly fortunate in securing Mr. E. Boyd Smith 

 as the illustrator and interpreter of Mrs. Austin's 

 charming sketches of the " Land of Little Rain." 

 His familiarity with the region and his rare ar- 

 tistic skill have enabled him to give the very 

 atmosphere of the desert, and graphically to por- 

 tray its life, animal and human. This will be felt 

 not only in the full-page compositions, but in the 

 delightful marginal sketches, which are not less 

 illustrative, although, from their nature, it is im- 

 practicable to enumerate them in a formal list. 



