. Smith College Monthly . cushion on the Stone of Scone. To ourbeloved predecessors we bid a reverentfarewell; may the lustre of their achieve-ment be never dimmed. For ourselves,by these presents be it known that wehumbly but resolutely don our regaliaof office, however uneasy our pillowsmay be in consequence. Yet as we swellwith triumph, we feel somehow bereaved—and beside our convivial table standthree empty chairs. The Editors wish to announce that anaccidental omission was made in theJanuary Monthly. The play The Ladyof His Choice was not intended to bepublished as original; it is an adap
. Smith College Monthly . cushion on the Stone of Scone. To ourbeloved predecessors we bid a reverentfarewell; may the lustre of their achieve-ment be never dimmed. For ourselves,by these presents be it known that wehumbly but resolutely don our regaliaof office, however uneasy our pillowsmay be in consequence. Yet as we swellwith triumph, we feel somehow bereaved—and beside our convivial table standthree empty chairs. The Editors wish to announce that anaccidental omission was made in theJanuary Monthly. The play The Ladyof His Choice was not intended to bepublished as original; it is an adapta-tion of Mr. Sampson, by Charles hope that no serious misunderstand-ing has resulted from this omission. A REASON FOR NOT BEING GREAT Helen Hitchcock It may be plcasanl to be a great manor a great woman during ones after death, great people are repro-duced in statuary, and statuary is astrong argument against greatness. [magine yourself the original of a bustwhich has outlived its first popularity. I \j/ifhoi;f*TYY colUr — as a household ornament, and has beentaken off some warm mantel shelf, andbequeathed to a lonely, echoing artgallery. Then imagine yourself lookingdown—or would it be up?—from theElysian fields upon your poor, whiteself. How cold you would feel for it,seeing it standing there without any collar, or wrap for its shoulders—most busts are not well-clothed And if youwere very, very great, and had a thou-sand likenesses in a thousand differentart galleries, how your shivers would be multiplied I Possibly Ih thought that your imagehad been placed where the public mi«:htsee it and benefit by the remembranceof your fame would be alas, how soon people lose apprecia-tion of the departed; how soon they for-get, and cease to reverence! Supposeyou are a Caesar. You may be placed,
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