Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . was left of themorning. [This story will be completed in the February Magazine.] The Rune of the Forest BY GERTRUDE H UN TING TON McGIFFERT It calls—it calls to meBy shadowy brake and fern,Where the wan wild roses yearn,Where the silver birches broodIn gentle sweet cool bowldered ways,Where the lurking spirit swaysThe tangled boughs, and lowStrange rustling love-dreams go,It calls—it calls to me. It beckons—beckons meUp vistaed steeps foretoldBy tree-tops etched in gold,Where deep-eyed violets sigh-Faint fragrant
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . was left of themorning. [This story will be completed in the February Magazine.] The Rune of the Forest BY GERTRUDE H UN TING TON McGIFFERT It calls—it calls to meBy shadowy brake and fern,Where the wan wild roses yearn,Where the silver birches broodIn gentle sweet cool bowldered ways,Where the lurking spirit swaysThe tangled boughs, and lowStrange rustling love-dreams go,It calls—it calls to me. It beckons—beckons meUp vistaed steeps foretoldBy tree-tops etched in gold,Where deep-eyed violets sigh-Faint fragrant luring forbidden pathsOf desolate pleasures and wraths,Down shelterless breathless ways,Wind-swept and heart-break days, It beckons—beckons me. It urges—urges mePast thickets mystic deep,Where lost hours stir and haunted caves where dreamPortending days, where gleamPale, sunken stars of fateThat summon me and —on resistlesslyUnto Eternity It urges- -urges me. Pictures AT THE METROPOLITANMUSEUM EXPECTATIONBy Josef Israels. EXPECTATIONBy Josef Israels Pictures at the Metropolitan Museum BY CHARLES H. CAFFIN THE Metropolitan Museum hasreached its majority. Enriched byrecent bequests, it is about to en-ter upon a career of extended usefulnessand dignity, which, if wisely directed,may lead to this New York museum be-coming one of the most distinguishedin the world. It is interesting, there-fore, to try to discover what notableassets it already possesses as a nucleusfor future development. The search, as we shall find, will takeus without much method from gallery togallery, prompting us to linger here andthere before certain pictures. Mean-while it will not be amiss to attempt abrief summary of the exhibition as awhole, since it involves considerationsthat have a bearing upon the future. The advantage to a museum of havinga large annual income is twofold. Itenables the management to watch themarket and take advantage of the oppor-tunities o
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