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Show "'lie inaift«l that the Wtu~ that waa of real valut: in th6 world waa n't intereating, and that the love that waa intere.sting wa.s n't alway.! admirable. Love that happened to a person like the measle& or fits, and wa.s r~lly of no particular cr«ii.l to iUelf or its victims, was the .art that (}~t '"'!.to the boob and waa made much of; whereaa the kind that wa.s atta·med by the endrovour of true aoula, a1ul that had wear in i.l, and that made thinrJB ~o righl inatead of tangling them up, waa too much like duty to make sat~faclorfl reading for people of aentiment."-E. S. MARTIN: My Couam Anthonu. LOVERS AND LANDSCAPE THE first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. The first day of spring is due to arrive, if the calendar does not break down, about the twentyfirst of March, when the earth turns the corner of Sun Alley and starts for Summer Street. But the first spring day is not on the time-table at all. It comes when it is ready, and in the latitude of New York this is usually not till after All Fools' Day. About this time,- "When chinks in April's windy dome Let through a day of June, And foot and thought incline to roam, And even1 sound 'a a tune,"- it is the habit of the angler who lives in town to prepare for the labours of the approaching season by longer walks or bicycle-rides in the parks, or along the riverside, or in the somewhat de- 107 |