L58 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [12:4— April, 1916 



one-hundredth part of the feeling which we city girls have toward 

 you. Before I leave you I wish to make clear to each and every 

 one that we not only love to look at beautiful things and give 

 thanks for them, but we love ourselves to do good for others as 

 you have done for us." 



The children actually saw Mr. Burroughs for the first time at 

 a birthday party at the Museum of Natural History. Here on 

 April to, 1012, the children of Public Schools 15 and 188G, Man- 

 hattan, presented a little play as a tribute to their friends. The 

 sight of his kindly face and smiling eyes was an inspiration and 

 they returned to their crowded tenement homes more than ever 

 eager to learn what he teaches them so well. 



The Club has not kept the good work to itself either, for, at 

 the request or two well known women, they appeared before the 

 Vacation Association, a branch of the Women's Civic Feder- 

 ation. Here the girls of these two schools presented their Bur- 

 roughs play to show girls who work in shops and factories the 

 beauties to be met with on a trip to the country. They added 

 in a second scene an appeal for saving during the winter in 

 order that the summer vacation might be spent in the country. 



These playlets were most effective not only in urging mem- 

 bers to save, but also in bringing new members into the Vacation 

 Club. 



Then in December, 19 13, came the real honor of the Burroughs 

 Club. John Burroughs accompanied the President of the Bur- 

 roughs Nature Club on a visit to P. S. 18SG to see the club mem- 

 bers at work, bringing with him an indescribable influence. 



This work of the Burroughs Nature Club has grown until 

 now there are Burroughs Clubs in most of the states from New 

 York to California. 



Through the President of the Burroughs Nature Club, our 

 school was presented with a beautiful bronze bust of John Bur- 

 roughs on October 30, 1914. 



The bust was sculptured by Pietro, an Italian artist, who lived 

 with Mr. Burroughs for some time while making the bust. Mr. 

 Pietro seems to have caught the same spirit of the man and em- 

 bodied it in the bronze. 



After the bust was unveiled, one little foreign child said: 



"It just seems as if Mr. Burroughs was looking down on little 

 children showing us the birds and the flowers." 



