ture's beautiful garb. Picture it in your imagination until it becomes a vivid reality.

2. A cultivated garden-rich in its color varieties, its pleasant perfumes, its evidences of intelligent and skilful

care.

3. Sky and clouds-a vast blue expanse flecked with light cloudlets, or massed with huge cloud-banks, or glooming with threatenings of rain or thunder-storm.

4. Birds-plain and brown, or gorgeous in plumagewith blithesome or cheery call, or raucous cry-swiftwinged, migratory.

5. Butterflies-fairy children of the sun, tender-hued, gorgeously figured, flitting about in the open blaze of the sunlight, the poetry of color and movement.

6. Flowers-roses, lilies, pansies, the heliotrope, the geranium-bountiful mother earth's wealth in endless variety of graceful form, witching beauty, and grateful fragrance.

Study IV.

1. Saunter (walk leisurely) by the river.

Listen to: (a) Its roar over the fall. (b) Its murmur among the reeds near the shore.

Watch: (a) Its smooth surface broken into ripples as a fish springs to catch a fly, or (b) dotted with gleams as the sunbeams strike it, or (c) flowing and disappearing round a sharp bend (corner) half a mile away.

2. Watch the dawn of day, as if some great painter were covering the morning heavens with some wonderful dream-scheme born of the foregoing night.

3. Watch the dying of day, as if the same divine genius

Reproduced, by permission, from the original in the possession of the Liverpool Corporation.

MEADOW SWEETS.

From the painting by David Murray, A.R.A.

were repeating over the western sky his feats of artistic splendor of the morning.

Exercise.

1. With these bits of description-pictured unit thoughts as backgrounds or settings, write an original story.

Make use of familiar, natural objects of every-day life-known objects, known phenomena, known elements generally.

2. Write a story in which you make a girl the chief character. Gown her in the color-garb of summer. Describe her engaged in a summer pursuit.

Give her the attributes of the summer season: (1) A glowing heart. (2) A bright and happy life. (3) A radiant spirit shown in all that she does.

How do these features associate themselves with summer as a season?

Study V.

You will be required to work out a word-picture including the following features, so study them carefully. Bring into your work cloud effects, pointing out their curious formations and their relation to heat, light, and the weather. Let natural scenery form a part of the picture, and then the various forms of life will give the required touch of action to enliven the picture.

Natural Scenery.

1. A mountain or a valley with rugged sides and depths, or smooth with the passage of plough and har

row.

2. A lake, river, or the seashore, with boats for fishing and pleasure.

3. Fields and woodlands.

Life and Action.

1. Insects, butterflies, birds flitting and flying about in the sunshine.

2. Cattle grazing in the fields and on the hillsides, by the lake or river, or on the salt marshes by the sea.

3. Horses racing round the pasture or corral, followed by young colts prancing in their clumsy way and by a sheep-dog barking and leaping.

4. Men riding on horseback or in carriages and motorcars, or rowing, fishing, or bathing, or attending to business on the farm or in the corner store.

5. A gardener digging in a garden, sowing seed and planting roots, trimming flowers, pruning fruit-trees, or gathering fruit and plucking flowers.

6. Mill hands and a sawmill driven by water-power, the mill stream racing toward and turning the waterwheel, and the mill-hands moving about adjusting the logs to be sawed, piling up the lumber.

1. What are the

you name others?

Exercise I.

units under natural scenery? Can What are the units under life and action? Can you name others? Do you understand why they have been grouped separately?

2. In which group would you place: (1) gardens? (2) grass? (3) flowers? (4) birds?