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while, can take photographs which tell 

 something worth while, and until they 

 do these things, in Heaven's name, 

 spare the magazine editor, who is not 

 running a hospital for infants, nor an 

 infirmary for the aged. Magazines have 

 their mission in life; they want to do 

 something, tell something, be some- 

 thing; if you have photographs that 

 will further these requirements, send 

 them along; if not, keep them at home. 



Beauty Without Expression. 



Here are some beautiful sentences. 

 We wrote them with a one-cent lead 

 pencil, all by ourselves, in this office, 

 without the aid of a dictionary. We 

 offer a prize of a year's subscription to 

 The Guide to Nature to the one who 

 sends us the most lucid explanation of 

 the thought and the cleverest demonstra- 

 tion of the meaning. 



"Hope, serene and calm, rose effulgent 

 in the diadem of the constellation. Joy 

 and sorrow, belittled and eulogized, 

 touched the ethereal borders of the halo. 

 Then around Old Ocean's waste rose one 

 prolonged echo, of the Mesopotamia of 

 the depths of exultation. This, then, was 

 true. Midnight, dispassionate midnight, 

 produced the victory of the onward roll- 

 ing earth. Then Ceres, god of the 

 western cloud banks, proclaimed the 

 majesty of all things terrestrial and true." 



No, perhaps some one will tell us that 

 there is no "beauty of thought and mean- 



ing 



ice falls in woods. 



By Franklyn Wade, Rutland, Vermont. 



in this, and that it is useless to 

 seek for the prize on that basis. But we 

 argue that the sentences contain beautiful 

 words, are grammatically correct, will 

 analyze and are well balanced. 





£.*■ -f 



GOOD VISTAS IN NEW JERSEY STREAMS. 

 Louis S. Kohler, Bloomfield, N. J. 



