pictures. Indeed, all children can make pictures before they can write.
For a play-spell, each day John Landseer and his boys tramped across
Hampstead Heath to where there were donkeys, sheep, goats and cows
grazing; then all four would sit down on the grass before some chosen
subject and sketch the patient model.

Edwin Landseer's first loving recollections of his father went back to
these little excursions across the Heath. And for each boy to take back
to his mother and sisters a picture of something they had seen was a
great joy.

"Well, boys, what shall we draw today?" the father would ask at
breakfast-time.

And then they would all vote on it, and arguments in favor of goat or
donkey were eloquently and skilfully set forth.

I said that a very young child could draw pictures: standing by my chair
as I write this line is a chubby little girl, just four years old, in a
check dress, with two funny little braids down her back. She is begging
me for this pencil that she may "make a pussy-cat for Mamma to put in a
frame."

What boots it that the little girl's "pussy-cat" has five or six legs and
three tails--these are all inferior details.

The evolution of the individual mirrors the evolution of the race, and
long before races began to write or reason they made pictures.

Art education had better begin young, for then it is a sort of play; and