A PUPIL OF MR. J. P. WILLIAMS. HURSTPIERPOINT, SUSSEX.
(See opposite Plate.)
Love of nature, which familiarity with her beauty breeds, is not only wholesome for children of the upper classes. It is good for them, but more especially do we need an increase of such knowledge amongst the poor little waifs and strays of our great cities and towns, who have so few bright moments in their dull grey lives. If these nature study classes can help them, should we not do our utmost to encourage more ladies to take up this form of study in order to impart it to them with sympathy?
Wild Clematis
Smut on Oats
Stag Beetle.
A PAGE FROM A BOY’S NATURE STUDY SKETCH-BOOK.
A PUPIL OF MR. J. P. WILLIAMS, of HURSTPIERPOINT, SUSSEX.
Then, too, in our country villages, is it not wise to foster in young people a love of everything connected with country life? Will it not help largely to induce them to remain on the land and not migrate to the hardships and squalor of crowded towns?