The Outlook to Nature - Classic Reprint Author:L. H. Bailey 'THE volume in hand is one in which the author has assembled four lectures delivered in the Colonial Theatre, Boston, in January, 1905. The first lecture is a plea for the commonplace, and all of them illustrate that quality admirably. The author's idea is that which so possesses a certain intellectual cult in these days -- that which has inform... more »ed so many advertisements of patent breakfast foods -- the "return to nature."' - From a review by the New York Times
I SAT at the window of a hotel chamber, musing at the panorama that comes and goes in a thousand cities. There were human beings pouring in and out, up and down, as if moved by some restless and relentless machinery. Most of them were silent and serious and went quickly on. Some sauntered, and returned again and again as if looking for something that they did not expect to find. Carriages went up and down in endless pageant. Trolley-cars rushed by, clanging and grinding as they headlonged into the side streets. Meretricious automobiles with gor-gon-eyed drivers whirred into the crowds, scat-
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