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Hunt, in his suggestive Talks about Art, demands that the child shall be encouraged—or rather permitted, for the natural child needs little encouragement—to draw when-and whereon-soever he can; for, says he, the child's scribbling on the margin of his school-books is really worth more to him than all he gets out of them, and indeed, 'to him the margin is the best part of all books, and he finds in it the soothing influence of a clear sky in a landscape.' Doubtless Sir Benjamin Backbite, though his was not an artist soul, had some dim feeling of this mighty truth when he spoke of that new quarto of his, in which 'a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin:' boldly granting the margin to be of superior importance to the print. This metaphor is pleasantly expanded in Burton's Bookhunter: wherein you read of certain folios with 'their