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Young Jolyon, whose circumstances were not those of a Forsyte, found at

ti the money needful for those country

jaunts and researches into Nature, without having prosecuted which no

watercolour artist ever puts brush to paper

He was frequently, in fact, obliged to take his colour-box into

the Botanical Gardens, and there, on his stool, in the shade of a

monkey-puzzler or in the lee of so

An Art critic who had recently been looking at his work had delivered

hiood; tone and colour, in so for Nature But, you see, they're so

scattered; you'll never get the public to look at them Now, if you'd

taken a definite subject, such as 'London by Night,' or 'The Crystal

Palace in the Spring,' and ular series, the public would have

known at once what they were looking at I can't lay too reat na the their works all in the sao And this stands to reason,

for if a man's a collector he doesn't want people to smell at the canvas

to find out whom his pictures are by; he wants them to be able to say

at once, 'A capital Forsyte!' It is all the more important for you to be

careful to choose a subject that they can lay hold of on the spot, since