Let men who have such materials, and such models, proscribe all tawdry and poor European art--most of it a bad imitation of bad Greek, or worse Renaissance--and trust to Nature and the facts which lie nearest them.

But when will a time come for the West Indies when there will be wealth and civilisation enough to make such an art possible?
Soon, if all the employers of labour were like the gentleman at whose house we were that day, and like some others in the same island.
And through the windows and between the pillars of the gallery, what a blaze of colour and light.

The ground-floor was hedged in, a few feet from the walls, with high shrubs, which would have caused unwholesome damp in England, but were needed here for shade.

Foreign Crotons, Dracaenas, Cereuses, and a dozen more curious shapes--among them a 'cup-tree,' with concave leaves, each of which would hold water.

It was said to come from the East, and was unknown to me.