the great passages aloud, enjoying the music of verse and raising your whole mind to the level of the poet's feelings.

3. Put the rare words and phrases into your compositions and letters, not as long quotationsnever!-but as good instruments for conveying your own thinking.

4. Read the same poem often-not for the story only, but the rich details in pictures, figures, and the feelings the poet gives to his materials.

5. Don't read one kind of verse only-stories, for example. Make yourself-if you need to-read widely. You ought to be a rich soul as well as an intense one.

6. Don't read too much at once. Poetry tires quicker than prose; you get easily saturated and cannot take in more. Keep the volume close by you, for frequent rather than long reading.

7. When you find a beautiful picture or noble sentiment, write it off in a special book,-Your Book; the writing will emphasize it, and you will soon be delighted with your growth in taste.

8. Write a good deal of verse yourself (not for publication). It will make you choice in pleasant, accurate, suggestive words: it will make you look for lovely things and deep truth; it will give you feelings of distinction in that you express your ideas. in the most perfect form you can command.

THE MADONNA AND CHILD

Typical of universal Motherhood, this color-
plate is taken from the great picture in
the Dresden Gallery, originally painted by
Raphael as an altar-piece for the Church of
St. Sixtus, and is known as the "Madonna
di San Sisto."

JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND

From an engraving after life-photograph by
Rockwood, New York.

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From an etching by Hollyer after photograph
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BEWARE!

"I know a maiden fair to see,

Take care!

She can both false and friendly be,

Beware! Beware! "

From a photograph after the painting by J.
Coomans.

THE HOMES OF ENGLAND

"The Cottage-homes of England

By thousands on her plains,

They are smiling o'er the silvery brooks

And round the hamlet-fanes."

After a drawing by Harry Fenn.

WHEN THE COWS COME HOME

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"With a tinkle, tinkle, tinkle
Through fern and periwinkle
The cows are coming home;

A-loitering in the checkered stream,

Where the sunbeams glance and gleam."

From photograph by Goupil after painting by
Emil Van Marke.

JOHN HOWARD PAYNE

From a contemporary portrait.

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