158 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [8:4— ^April, 1912 



With scarce a human interest save their own 

 Monotonous round of small economies, 

 Or the poor scandal of the neighborhood ; 

 Blind to the beauty everywhere revealed, 

 Treading the mayflower with regardless feet; 

 For them the song sparrow and the bobolink 

 Sang not, nor winds made music in the leaves ; 

 For them in vain October's holocaust 

 Burned gold and crimson, over all the hills. 

 The sacramental mystery of the woods." 



News and Notes 



The Chicago Nature-Study Club, Miss Emily C. Westberg, 

 911 Roscoe Sec. secretary, has -been enjoying some lectures this 

 winter as follows : 



February 10th, — Aquaria for the Schoolroom. F. C. Baker. 



February 17th, — Window Gardening. A. H. Cole. 



February 24th, — Beautifying Schoolyards. Jens Jensen. 



March 2nd, — Trees for the Schoolyard, Street and Home. 

 J. H. Prost. 



March 9th, — Enemies of Trees. J. H. Prost. 



March 16th, — Birds as Guardians of Trees. Prof. R. M. 

 Stronsf. 



We have been following one rather potential line of work, 

 that of placing on a sand and dirt table, 4x6, six to eight inches 

 deep, a school house and yard in miniature. The buildings are 

 made out of pasteboard in^the art department. In the planning 

 of the lawn, flower seeds, trees, etc., the principles of landscape 

 architecture are borne in mind. Certain acreages are devoted to 

 gardens and to a general scheme of beautification. In this way 

 the children are brought to think of the beautification of their 

 own school house and school yard. We have found that the 

 interest developed around the sand table has taken expression 

 in the beautification of the larger school home. 



Yours sincerely, 

 Berkeley, Cal. C. A. S. 



C. A. Steubenmiller has been elected a Director of the 

 American Nature-Study Society by the New York Section. 



