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Excerpt from At the Turn of the Year: Essays Nature Thoughts
It were, italicise the last illustra tions to which Miss Preston Macgoun lent her facile brush and fine imagin ation. The more so as her pictures have frequently awakened the spirit of friend ship in many who have never had the pleasure of looking into her face. This was, indeed, a not unimpressive feature in her art. It is the same, Of course, with literature and music; but of the many writers and musicians who appeal to our sense Of beauty how few there are who seem to pass through the gate Of admiration and come with hands out spread, demanding, and gaining, some thing like a personal affection from us. Miss Hannah Clarke Preston Mac goun, who passed from us on August 2otb, 191 3, was the youngest daughter of the late Rev. R. W. Macgoun, m.a.
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