8 FOREWORD 



known to all who knew him. Never a 

 summer passed without letters from stu- 

 dents, and other friends in vacation lands, 

 whose thoughts had turned to him when 

 they saw "his" mountains. 



The friends who tramped with him 

 along country roads and through moun- 

 tain paths have long remembered those 

 days, for a walk with him could never 

 be commonplace. It might more easily 

 be an event. 



The world of literature too was always 

 hovering near him and from its store he 

 often brought some beautiful expression 

 fitting the scene before him. 



It was from such days of freedom, and 

 association with Nature in her many 

 forms whether rugged mountain or 

 peaceful valley that he came away re- 

 newed in body and spirit. 



"The quiet of the fields and woods 

 Sank deep into his soul." 



IDA GORHAM CURTIS. 

 Leonia, New Jersey. 



