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PUBLISHERS NOTICES 



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A Double Number. 

 On account of mechanical difficulties 

 and consequent delays at the printing 

 office, the publication of "The Guide 

 to Nature" has been pushed forward a 

 few days each month. To catch up 

 this number contains double the num- 

 ber of pages of our last issue and is 

 for September-October. We are prom- 

 ised that the next number will be is- 

 sued on time. 



How to Live in Arcadia. 



Our Arcadia, the Home of The 

 Guide to Nature and allied interests — 

 the Nature Institution, is but the office, 

 the working headquarters, of a larger 

 Arcadia than which there is no finer 

 on earth. 



The name of Sound Beach empha- 

 sizes the attractions of one section of 

 the wonderfully beautiful and interest- 

 ing beach of Long Island Sound. All 

 along the shore there is marine scenery 

 unsurpassed by any other in the world. 

 For the naturalist, these biological col- 

 lecting grounds are unequalled. Ex- 

 tending northward from the beach are 

 excellent roads and trolley lines giving 

 easy access, afoot or on wheels, to 

 Arcadian scenery that would make the 

 original Pan covetous — as wild, pictur- 

 esque and primitive as in the clays 

 when the Indian tribes (commemora- 

 ted in many local names) were most 

 active and prosperous. 



There are frequent cosy resting 

 places for the tired, many picturesque 

 scenes for camerist or artist and plenty 

 of detail for the careful student. 



Thus far it has been our mission to be 

 a guide from the point of view of a nat- 



uralist. With this issue The Guide to 

 Nature broadens its scope by guidance 

 to those in search of homes, temporary 

 or permanent, in this famous Arcadian 

 country. 



If you wish to board, to rent, to buy 

 or to build, write to The Guide to Na- 

 ture. 



If you have any of these facilities to 

 offer, write to The Guide to Nature. 



In fact, for any information of getting 

 to, living in or profiting by the greater 

 or the smaller Arcadia, write to The 

 Guide to Nature. 



The Sound Beach Idea. 



Progress in the building and equip- 

 ment of Arcadia at Sound Beach to- 

 gether with certain developments of 

 plans as brought out in the Summer 

 School, gradually reveals the fact that 

 the Institution stands for a distinct new 

 idea of more than local interest. When 

 first anonunced it was generally suppos- 

 ed locally that Arcadia is merely the 

 headquarters for naturalists and the dis- 

 semination of natural science informa- 

 tion. Now it is evident that Arcadia 

 has back of it a distinct new social idea, 

 the development of which will be watch- 

 ed with general interest. If successful, 

 Sound Beach will signify not merely a 

 location but a new idea in summer re- 

 sorts. 



Every year the migration from city 

 to country increases. This public de- 

 mand has been to the profit of the real 

 estate dealer or business house. Ingen- 

 ious methods have been adopted to suc- 

 cessfully advertise the various resorts. 

 Railroads and steamship lines have made 

 known as attractively as possible their 

 facilities of travel. Enterprising busi- 

 ness houses have vied with each other 

 to supply all needed goods. The city 

 resident seeking the country or seashore, 

 mountain or lake, has therefore been 

 able to go and to return, to buy or lease 



