AGAIN the low rymbling sound of Miss Carolyn Wells!! This time ART is her impassioned theme. She writes from Hansontown, Herfordshire.

ON A PORTRAIT OF NANCY

FULL winsome was her bonny face,

And eke her golden hair.

Her gown was weft of rarest lace;

And high aloft, with gentle grace,

A sunshade pink she bare.

The She Bear from the forest came,

Just why, I cannot state.

The creature seemed to be quite tame;