14 TREES IN NATURE, MYTH & ART 



bility? I do not mean merely that, while 

 living away from them, he may often see them, 

 even at all seasons of the year. This is not 

 enough for companionship. It is, of course, 

 quite possible to live always amongst trees 

 and yet have no companionship with them, 

 not to have even so much as a nodding ac- 

 quaintance; and one may live in a London 

 street and have companionship with the trees 

 in the parks. We shall see hereafter that this 

 was true of the painter Millais. Perhaps there 

 are not a few who have made friends among 

 the trees and think of them from afar. In these 

 restless days we hurry from place to place, 

 changing frequently even our holiday-resorts. 

 It will be well for us if we have, those of us 

 who must spend most of our time in the town, 

 some spot in the country to which we return 

 again and again. Not a few of our landscape 

 painters have done their life-work within a 

 radius of not many miles of the place where 

 once they found that at last they were at home. 

 In England we have had our '' Norwich 

 School," in France they have had their 

 " Barbizon School," to give only two examples. 

 The reader is short of something if he have 



