The keynote of it was that one ought to draw what he sees, exactly as he sees it; and that every subject has a beauty of its own which he ought to perceive if his perception is not "emasculated by an acquired taste for prettinesses." "I shall be in the 'Household Album' this evening," said Jack, in deliberate tones.

"My next ambition is the Society of Painters in Water Colours.

The subject of my first painting is settled.

Three grass fields (haymaking over the day before yesterday).

A wall in front of the first field, a hedge in front of the second, a wall in front of the third.