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A WOODLAND PATH— FOREST PARK, BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
forting sense of peace and rest which always per- 
vades one in the full enjoyment of a woodland wan- 
der, add force to the idea that every park system 
should be provided with a certain proportion of 
wild park to make it complete, and to fill the re- 
quirements of perfect harmony of design as suggested 
by the higher aspirations of man’s nature. For 
after all, the most artistically arranged park, — its 
details provided after the most approved practice, 
with the choicest array of plants and flowers and 
the most refined of landscape effects — fails to im- 
part that peculiar satisfaction and restful condition 
of being which the quiet woods tend to produce. 
The one lends completeness to the other — helps to 
fill out a blank which human nature demands. 
The scene shown in the accompanying illustra- 
tion gives us a little stretch of wood scenery, with 
much suggestiveness in its unkempt disorderliness. 
The view is taken in Forest Park, Brooklyn, in one 
of the more recent tracts acquired for park purposes, 
and it is designed to retain some of these patches of 
woods in as near a natural state as is compatible 
with proper care and preservation. And what is 
more charming under certain conditions than this 
woodland path, with its carpet of leaves and mosses, 
its overarching boughs, — triumphal arches of na- 
tures making — not commemorating the question- 
able deeds of man, but inviting to contemplation, 
and teaching lessons inextricably interwoven with 
man’s higher aspirations and most certainly with 
his earthly destiny. 
Doubt having been expressed as to whether the re- 
mains of Voltaire and Rousseau really occupied the cof- 
fins attributed to them in the Pantheon, Paris, a commis- 
sion was appointed by the French government to verify 
the matter, which early in the new year made the exam- 
ination. On opening the coffin of Voltaire the bones 
were found in disorder, but intact. The skull was in a 
fine state of preservation, and resembled in a striking 
way the portrait of Voltaire in his withered old age, by 
Pigalle. Inside the coffin of Rousseau was a leaden re- 
ceptacle, which, on being opened, disclosed the skeleton 
of Rousseau in a perfect and undisturbed condition. M. 
Hamel summarized the results of the inquiry as follows: 
“It has been said that the bones of Voltaire were never 
deposited in the Pantheon. This is an error. It has 
been said that the bones of Rousseau remained at Er- 
monville. This is an error. It has, furthermore, been 
said that Rousseau was killed by a pistol shot. This is 
a third error. We have this evening ascertained the 
truth on these three points.” This report will set at rest 
considerable speculation in regard to the final disposi- 
tion of the remains of these two noted Frenchmen. 
