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tive work is always a delight in the doing 
and the designer will always hope that 
what has been put into it will be taken 
out by one or another who stands before 
it. To create the new group has come 
as an opportunity to give back in a small 
measure here in the heart of New York 
City what was received some years ago 
from an intimate acquaintance with the 
New England “wilderness.” Naturally 
no mere words can carry the news of the 
woods at any season with the vividness 
of the reality, even though that reality 
be set in a still picture. Words are 
weak indeed also to transmit the magne- 
tic attraction nature exerts over man. 
They fail utterly to convey what will 
produce the personal reaction of feeling 
such as is wrought into one who lives 
out-of-doors and sees continually the 
most commonplace scene take on mean- 
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ing and beauty — perhaps under the 
influence of the mist of dawn, the quiet- 
ness of dusk or the blackness of storm, 
perhaps when it is lashed by wind and 
rain, or afterward transfigured in a 
radiancy of sunshine. 
It is in this last mood that the recent 
group has been fashioned and in May, 
the season of new life, with the thought 
that perhaps this concrete picture would 
be able to do what words accomplish 
but inadequately. That in it there 
would be seen with unusual vividness 
and attractiveness the natural history 
facts involved, and that perhaps, in 
addition, there would be felt—by a 
child here, a lover of beauty there, the 
poet everywhere — some part of nature’s 
subtle personal invitation and some 
reflection of the spiritual response which 
the original scene might invoke. 
Redstart and parula warblers.— May is the month of warblers and the gay-foliaged branches are 
filled with them, yet they are difficult to locate. 
(From the Toad Group) 
