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example of the worth of treasuring spiritual riches. Her broad 

 culture, broad sympathies and artistic sense have placed her among 

 the first of California poets. 



Bertha Chapman Cady, the author of the most excellent book on 

 sex education and a well-known teacher of nature-study and 

 gardening, gives us an account in the Nature Camp on Mt. Shasta 

 and also sends a symposiimi of California nature stories from her 

 class of the Chico Normal School. Mr. C. M. Goethe, a very busy 

 business man of Sacramento, has found time to do a large part 

 in establishing the Nature League in California, a very important 

 and active organization, and he tells us of its inception and growth. 

 Mr. Carroll DeWilson Scott has given us poems full of California 

 beauty and feeling. Professor Clayton F. Palmer, whose work 

 in the Los Angeles School is well-known tells of the work done 

 there for elementary agriculture. Miss Snow Longley gives us a 

 delightful account of a weasel's personality. 



No other issue of The Nature-Study Review has ever had so 

 many eminent scientists and writers as contributors, and the 

 editor and the readers of The Review are proportionately grateful. 



California 



Even the name California has a charm of its own, and to one who 

 knows the state it recalls a picture with a background of steep 

 rugged mountains, shimmering with varying tints of ravishing 

 purples and azures, flanked by vivid green, poppy-decked foot- 

 hills, a foreground of level stretches broidered with a cliquish 

 flora, each species in a mass by itself, the masses commingling like 

 a Persian tapestry. Or it calls up visions of vast orchards abloom, 

 or orange trees gold-laden or of giant forest trees so straight and 

 tall that they look slender although each trunk may measure 

 many feet across; or of dashing mountain streams, fed from the 

 melting snows or mountain meadows, set with purple lupines. 



And yet it often happens that the eastern traveller is disap- 

 pointed in California, and why ? Because he expects to carry along 

 his own eastern landscape of intimate hills, woodlands and streams 

 green fields and prattling brooks and find added unto it the glories 

 of the Pacific Coast. How impossible ! It is only after the new- 

 comer realizes that California is too great and wonderful to be an 

 adjunct to anything else in the world, that his ideas change and 

 his appreciation grows until it is equal to the revelations of beauty 

 found in the widely varied scenery of this great State. 



