Excerpt from The Manchester Quarterly, Vol. 18: A Journal of Literature and Art Adventitious is the adjective used by one connoisseur Of the figures in the Welsh Funeral. But Mr. Whaite has no more introduced the figures, than the mountains or the trees. They are essential to the landscape - given his intuitive sense that Nature, God, and Man are inseparable The figures and the cottage-roof in The Rainbow are Of doubtful advantage pictorially, but for thought, they are Of the greatest moment, telling us that the glory of the hills, the splendour of the bow in the Heavens as the shower passes away, the promise of the Spring-time in the budding Of the tree, and the birth Of the lamb, wonderful as they all are, are as nothing com pared with the divinely ordered destiny Of the children who play in the midst Of them. 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.