NORMANDY

A NORMAN PEASANT

NORMANDY
BY NICO JUNGMAN
TEXT BY G. E. MITTON
PUBLISHED BY ADAM
AND CHARLES BLACK
SOHO SQUARE · LONDON

Published September 1905

PREFACE

Pen and brush are both necessary in the attemptto give an impression of a country; word-paintingfor the brain, colour for the eye. Yet even then theremust be gaps and a sad lack of completeness, whichis felt by no one more than by the coadjutors whohave produced this book. There are so many aspectsunder which a country may be seen. In the caseof Normandy, for instance, one man looks formagnificent architecture alone, another for countryscenes, another for peasant life, and each and allwill cavil at a book which does not cater for theirparticular taste. Cavil they must; the artist andauthor here have tried—knowing well how far shortof the ideal they have fallen—to show Normandyas it appeared to them, and the matter must becoloured by their personalities. Thus they pleadfor leniency, on the ground that no one person’s viewcan ever exactly be that which satisfies another.

G. E. MITTON.

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CONTENTS