Our Beautiful Homes - Series 1 - New South Wales -

 Our Beautiful Homes - NSW

Transcription (Our Beautiful Homes – New South Wales (album, Series 1), "Proem" page)

Proem.

If patriotism be love of country, then we—the people of New South Wales—are inspired by an intense loyalty. We delight to tell of "the lavish splendour of the skies," and picture the beauties of our mountains, plains and waters. We do it, too, with an emphatic air of personal ownership, for we speak of these always as "ours."

But Nature claims that her profusion of Gifts shall find response in their application and use by the human mind and hand. Of this our artists in song and melody and colour may tell in part. How it has entered into the common concerns of daily life, as in the building and adornment of our Dwellings, in the planting of trees and the cultivation of Flowers, we tell and picture in

"Our Beautiful Homes."

And in pride of country, in what it has done for us, and in what it has helped us to do, we provide our fellow subjects of Greater Britain with the opportunity of seeing something of the conditions under which we live, and of the Ideals of House and Home which inspire us in New South Wales.

The Contributors to this Collection of Illustrations are Contributors also to the raising and enlarging of the scope of Domestic Art. Here are pictured both House and Home, for if the House is created by the mind and craft of man, the Home is born of the Heart of woman, and the Homes of a people are the true shrines of their National life, and the foundation of their National greatness.