II. 



LEAFLESS WOODS. 



LEAFY forest, Gilpin 

 remarks, in his ' For- 

 est Scenery,' * is not 

 solely the object of in- 

 cidental beauty. ' The 

 picturesque eye,' he 

 quaintly adds, 'finds 

 great amusement even 

 in its wintry scenes, 

 when it has thrown its 

 rich mantle aside, and appears, to the common 

 eye, naked and deformed.' This last expression 

 — ' naked and deformed ' — happily conveys the 

 popular idea of the forest in Winter. Bare 



* ' Heath's Gilpin's Forest Scenery,' page 348. The subse- 

 quent references to ' Forest Scenery ' are also to the present 

 writer's edition. 



