The Publishers feel that they have been peculiarly fortunate in securing
Mr. E. Boyd Smith as the illustrator and interpreter of Mrs. Austin's
charming sketches of the "Land of Little Rain." His familiarity with the
region and his rare artistic skill have enabled him to give the very
atmosphere of the desert, and graphically to portray its life, animal
and human. This will be felt not only in the full-page compositions, but
in the delightful marginal sketches, which are not less illustrative,
although, from their nature, it is impracticable to enumerate them in a
formal list.