Excerpt from The Gleaner, Vol. 4: May, 1904 Since I arrived here two months ago, I have conceived many bright and novel ideas for paintings and am glad, for that one reason, that circum stances have compelled me to take to the country - for surely the green mea dows and dense forests, - nature, in one word - are the best subjects that could be desired to place upon the stretched canvass. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.