Art Out-of-Doors 
the smallest scheme is likely to be more suc- 
cessfully planned and more rapidly perfected 
under an artist’s eye. Yet if his help is un- 
attainable, there is no reason why the ama- 
teur should resignedly fall back upon hap- 
hazard ways of working. Any man can try 
to work in an artistic spirit, even if he can- 
not rival an artist’s skill in execution. That 
is to say, no result made up of various ele- 
ments (even if those elements be the very 
fewest in number) can be good which is not 
good as a whole ; to make it good as a 
whole we must begin by having a clear idea 
of what sort of a whole we want ; and to be- 
gin with such an idea is to work in an artis- 
tic spirit, no matter how well or poorly we 
succeed in giving it beautiful expression. 
The scheme is the main point— the scheme, 
and the will to stick to it and not be tempt- 
ed by the beauty of individual things into 
frittering away or confusing its effect. 
Is it needful to say that working in this 
spirit we should not only work to better 
eventual effect, but with greater pleasure at 
the moment ? To have some appropriate 
and charming little picture in our minds 
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