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given to explore some technical point 

 appreciated by only comparatively few 

 people, only a small amount of money 

 has ever been given to carry the know- 

 ledge of nature to the majority? If you 

 ask what is the greatest puzzle in all the 

 work of nature in relation to mankind, 

 I should say that it is this strange fact, 

 here is a good example of it. A few 

 private individuals with a limited a- 

 mount of money are doing vastly more 

 important work than the Carnegie In- 

 stitution backed by thousands and 

 thousands of dollars, attempted to do 

 with Luther Burbank's discoveries. So 

 we say again, success to the Luther 

 Burbank Society. It stands for the 

 people, the homes, and not the tomes 

 of exclusive libraries. It stands for 

 farmers and their wives, the boys and 

 girls and students and lovers of nature 

 everywhere. 



Air. Scott had rare and admirable 

 traits. He was a serious, forceful, 

 urbane, cultivated gentleman, wise in 

 counsel, with a well-poised and cheer- 

 ful philosophy which did not yield to 

 the weight of business cares. He had a 

 noteworthy dignity of bearing, but 

 even late in life this retained a youthful 



Frank Hall Scott. 



The Late President of the Century 

 Company. 



The readers of a magazine cannot be 

 expected to be aware of all the in- 

 fluences and qualities that go to make 

 it what it is. Sometimes these in- 

 fluences are clue to active and asrpres- 

 sive personal initiative in one depart- 

 ment or another ; but, particularly in 

 large matters, such as traditional pol- 

 icies, says an editorial in the January 

 "Century," they could not persist were 

 it not for the sympathetic cooperation 

 of many; and in a well-organized busi- 

 ness these influences do not cease with 

 the death of any one person. The loss 

 of such a man as Frank H. Scott, our 

 late president, cannot be a matter of 

 indifference to our readers when it is 

 known that Mr. Scott was intimately 

 associated with the management of this 

 business from the publication of the 

 first number of the magazine, under the 

 former style of "Scribner's Monthly," 

 until the day of his death. Noevmber 25, 

 1912. From the time that the house 

 entered upon the publication of "St. 

 Nicholas" and of books his respon- 

 sibilities grew until they became those 

 of the first order. He was thus an in- 

 tegral part of the entire history of this 

 enterprise, and to those of us who have 

 been by his side for many years his 

 death is a poignant bereavement. 



FRANK HALL SCOTT. 



and buoyant spirit. Intimate friends 

 who knew the fertility of his fancy, 

 held, from some early stories that he 

 wrote, that he would have succeeded 

 as a writer of fiction. But all who 

 came in contact with him were im- 

 pressed, chiefly with the judicial char- 

 acter of his mind, in which regard 

 especially he stood high in the estimate 

 of the publishing fraternity. His main 

 purpose was to be just to all. He had 

 hospitality toward various points of 

 view, power of accurate perception and 

 exact weighing of facts — clear intellect- 

 ual processes which inspired confidence 

 in his judgments and would have made 

 him an ideal judge on the bench. He 

 was, moreover, a man of active kind- 

 ness — a stanch and responsive friend, 

 and faultless in all the relations of life. 

 Inadequate as is this record, his associ- 

 ates take pride in paying this tribute 

 to a man who inspired their deep af- 



