the work of Stonestudy, and
shall always be; but first and last is the conviction that literature
and art are but incident to life; that we are here to become masters of
life--artists, if possible, but in any case, men.

... To-day the glimpse of it all--that this is to be a book of the
younger generation.... I remember in the zeal of a novice, how earnestly
I planned to relate the joys of rose-culture, when some yellow teas came
into their lovely being in answer to the long preparation. It seemed to
me that a man could do little better for his quiet joy than to raise
roses; that nothing was so perfectly designed to keep romance perennial
in his soul. Then the truth appeared--greater things that were going on
here--the cultivation of young and living minds, minds still fluid,
eager to give their faith and take the story of life; minds that are
changed in an instant and lifted for all time, if the story is well
told.... So in the glimpse of this book as a whole, as it comes to-day
(an East wind rising and the gulls blown inland) I find that a man may
build a more substantial thing than a stone house, may realise an
intenser cultivation than even tea-roses require; and of this I want to
tell simply and with something of order from the beginning.

WILL LEVINGTON COMFORT.

STONESTUDY, March, 1916.

CONTENTS

PAGE

BEES AND BLOOMS 17

BLUFF AND SHORE 28

STONESTUDY 38

IMAGINATION 43

WILD GEESE 55

WORKMANSHIP 65

THE LITTLE GIRL 78

THE ABBOT 90

THE VALLEY-ROAD GIRL 102

COMPASSION 113

THE LITTLE GIRL'S WORK 123

TEARING-DOWN SENTIMENT 134

NATURAL CRUELTY 151

CHILDREN CHANGE 163

A MAN'S OWN 171

THE PLAN IS ONE 186

THE IRISH CHAPTER 196

THE BLEAKEST HOUR 202

THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER 217

COMMON CLAY BRICK 222

THE HIGHEST OF THE ARTS 230

MIRACLES 248

MORE ABOUT ORDER 259

THE FRESH EYE 270

THE CHOICE OF THE MANY 279

THE ROSE CHAPTER 284

LETTERS 294

THE ABBOT DEPARTS 301

THE DAKOTAN 313