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impressed with the individuality of trees, that it seemed too com- 

 monplace a fact to mention. 



Many poets have felt this companionship with trees and perhaps 

 none have expressed it more exquisitely than Lowell in Under the 

 Willows. But the Editor had an inner conviction that this feeling 

 is by no means limited to poets and so was led to ask several people, 

 among them some ver^' "IcA^el -headed" unsentimental and practi- 

 cal young men, to tell the truth about their experiences with 

 individual trees. Some of the results of this request give special 

 quality to this mmiber of the Review and there are others just as 

 good, retained in the Editorial portfolio. These experiences have 

 been pubHshed in The Review with a purpose, hoping that they 

 will lead teachers to sympathetically help their pupils to what 

 should be an inalienable heritage of the American child, — a sense 

 of companionship with trees. 



welcome home 



"In time of war, one who loves his country should be at home." 

 These are the words that came in a letter in May from Professor 

 L. H. Bailey, the President of the American Nature-Study Society, 

 who was in China when the United States declared war. And, 

 true to his sentiments as thus expressed, he has cut short his stay in 

 the Orient, and has returned to us and to any form of service which 

 he can render his country in her time of stress. 



It is difficult to express in mere words the rejoicing and the 

 welcome from every side which have greeted him and his family on 

 their return home. It is a source of cheer and comfort to us all to 

 have them back to give us courage, to share with us, and help us to 

 bear all that is coming to us, because of this war. Meanwhile and 

 quite inevitably, the President of our Society has returned full of 

 strange and interesting experiences which he gained while collecting 

 plants in remote regions. Fortunately for the world, his interests 

 are deeply human and, although collecting plants, he is always 

 studying people and meeting them with gentle, keen and sympa- 

 thetic understanding. 



