6o Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences 



eration it is merely a sad reminder of the beginning of the era 

 of commercial development which has ruthlessly defaced and de- 

 stroyed so many of our once attractive natural features and places 

 of historic interest. 



A. H. 



The Fair Emprise^ 



This is a well-printed, attractively illustrated octavo pamphlet 

 of fifty-eight pages of reading matter, including title-pages and 

 table of contents, and fourteen of advertisements. For the in- 

 formation of the uninitiated it may be remarked that " Fair " 

 refers to a fair held for the purpose of raising funds for the 

 parish house of the church, hence "fifty cents a copy," and that 

 " Emprise " may be found defined in the Standard Dictionary 

 as follows: "[archaic] an enterprise, especially one of adventur- 

 ous or chivalric nature." The date of publication does not appear 

 on the title page, but " November, 191 1, may be found on page 3, 

 included under "contents," and we may, perhaps, be justified in 

 assuming that this represents the date of publication of the volume 

 as a whole and not merely that of the table of contents. 



Both poetry and prose are included and it is pleasing to note 

 that the entire contents, illustrations as well as text, are products 

 of local talent. The names of George William Curtis, Edwin and 

 Catherine Markham, William Winter, George and Agnes Mc- 

 Clelland Daulton, and those of other Staten Island literati may 

 be found among the contributors. Some of the articles are re- 

 printed, but for the most part they were, apparently, written for 

 the volume under discussion. The range of subjects is varied, 

 consisting of light fiction, a " Puzzle Page," poetry, biography, 

 and one article on natural science. Altogether it is a creditable 

 piece of work to all concerned, far more so than most similar pub- 



'The Fair Emprise | Edited and Published by | Edith M. Pollard | 

 Theodora Lins, Mabel G. Burdick | For the Benefit of the Parish House | 

 of the I Church of the Redeemer | New Brighton | Staten Island | Fifty 

 Cents a Copy | 



