But the tendency is not altogether in the direction of Pantheism. There is a group of artists, among whom I will only mention D. Y. Cameron, A. W. Rich, Albert Goodwin, and C. J. Holmes, which manfully upholds the supremacy of the artist over Nature. The influence of the art of the past has counted for more in works like Cameron’s _Autumn in Strath Tay_ (Plate XVIII), Rich’s _Swaledale_ (Plate XI), Goodwin’s _Lincoln_, and Holmes’s _Near Aisgill_ (Plate IX), than Nature herself. In these drawings the free-will of the individual triumphantly asserts itself. They are what they are because their makers loved art and particular forms of art first of all, and wanted to imitate them. Their inspiration came from within (from human nature) and not from without (from physical nature). But this is not to say that they are mere copies of other men’s works, for obviously they are nothing of the kind. They are at least as original and individual as any of the other drawings of which we have spoken. And these artists, too, study Nature just as keenly and as indefatigably as the realists, only their methods of study are different. With works like those illustrated in this volume--so different in aim and method, yet each so virile, sincere and personal--it is evident that water-colour painting is still a distinctly living art in this country. The British water-colour painters of to-day are “keeping their end up” as well as our soldiers, sailors and workers in other spheres, and, like them, they have earned the right to face the future with hearts full of confidence and hope. [Illustration: PLATE V. “ENVIRONS OF CAMBORNE.” BY S. J. LAMORNA BIRCH, R.W.S. (_In the possession of the Fine Art Society._)] [Illustration: PLATE VI. (_In the possession of Messrs. Ernest Brown & Phillips, the Leicester Galleries._) LANDSCAPE. BY MARK FISHER, A.R.A.] [Illustration: PLATE VII. “THE ROUND HOUSE.” BY CHARLES M. GERE.] [Illustration: PLATE VIII. (_In the possession of E. Weber, Esq._) “LINCOLN.” BY ALBERT GOODWIN, R.W.S.] [Illustration: PLATE IX. “NEAR AISGILL.” BY C. J. HOLMES. (_In the possession of D. M. Carnegie, Esq._)] [Illustration: PLATE X. “TIDAL BASIN, MONTROSE.” BY ROBERT LITTLE, R.W.S., R.S.W.] [Illustration: PLATE XI. “SWALEDALE.” BY ALFRED W. RICH.] [Illustration: PLATE XII. “CAUGHT IN THE FROZEN PALMS OF SPRING.” BY LIONEL SMYTHE, R.A., R.W.S. (_In the possession of W. Lawrence Smith, Esq._)] [Illustration: PLATE XIII. “A POOL IN THE WOODS.” BY W. EYRE WALKER, R.W.S.] [Illustration: PLATE XIV. “IN CROWHURST PARK, SUSSEX.” BY SIR E. A. WATERLOW, R.A., R.W.S., H.R.S.W.] THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRITISH LANDSCAPE PAINTING IN WATER-COLOURS: SCOTTISH PAINTERS. BY E. A. TAYLOR