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cance and meaning in each shade and change of her 

 features, and read more understandingly what is 

 going on deep within her soul — we shall enable 

 ourselves to see a fuller and richer Natural 

 Beauty. 



So we look forward to the appearance among us 

 of a great Artist who, born with an exceptionally 

 sensitive soul, will deliberately heighten and in- 

 tensify this sensitiveness, learn what others have 

 experienced, compare notes with them, and train 

 himself to detect the significance of every slightest 

 indication which Nature gives of the workings of 

 the soul within her ; and then, recognising the same- 

 ness between his own feelings and the feelings of 

 Nature, will fall deeply in love with her, give 

 himself up utterly to her, marry her, and in their 

 marriage give birth to Beauty of surpassing rich- 

 ness and intensity. 



What we await, then, is an Artist with a soul 

 worthy of being wedded to Nature. Puny, shallow 

 artists will" not be able to see much more of Nature 

 than a midge sees of a man. What we want is a 

 man with the physique, the abounding health and 

 spirits, the fine intellect, the poetic power and 

 imagination, the love of animals and his fellow-men, 

 the skill, fitness, and gay courage of a Julian 

 Grenfell. We want a man with the opportunities 

 he had of mixing from childhood in London and in 

 country houses with every grade and condition of 

 men, with statesmen, soldiers, men pf art, hunting 

 men, racing men, schoolboys, undergraduates, liter- 

 ary men, gamekeepers, old family retainers — every 

 kind and sort of human being. We want a man of 



