time and the present world have no part here! Perhaps you do not value all this as I do. Perhaps the seamy side shuts you from the rest, and you shrink from the brutality of man and the suffering of beast. I have heard people speak thus sometimes, and give thanks for their books, and their bathrooms, for the opera, and for Europe where they can travel in a landscape seasoned by history. Well, Europe is richer, much richer, than any desert, and it is toward its use and comprehension, on the whole, that our struggling faces are set. Our fond, quack-ridden Republic looks, after all, toward the old world for its teaching. But we have a landscape seasoned by mystery, where chiefs and heroes move, fit subjects for the poet. If you do not see this, perhaps you are too near. Let me ask you to think of the bloody slaughters in Homer, and of all the great art you know from him to the present day; has not the terrible its share of notice? Doubtless you would have stopped Homer’s reciting to you how bodies were hacked to pieces beneath the walls of Troy, and how swinish were sometimes the companions of Ulysses. But now you read it all with pleasure. Do you believe Art would have amounted to much if it had excluded pain and ugliness and narrowed its gaze upon the beautiful alone? At any rate I am glad that we have Remington, one of the kind that makes us aware of things we could not have seen for ourselves. We have been scarce enough in native material for Art to let go what the soil provides us. We have often failed to value what the intelligent foreigner seizes upon at once. And I think as the Frontier recedes into tradition, fewer of us will shrink from its details. If Remington did nothing further, already has he achieved: he has made a page of American history his own. OWEN WISTER. DRAWINGS [Illustration: Forsythe’s Fight on the Republican River, 1868--The Charge of Roman Nose.] [Illustration: Coronado’s March--Colorado.] [Illustration: The Missionary and the Medicine Man.] [Illustration: Hunting a Beaver Stream--1840.] [Illustration: The Hungry Winter.] [Illustration: Fight Over a Water Hole.] [Illustration: When His Heart is Bad.] [Illustration: A Citadel of the Plains.] [Illustration: On the Northwest Coast.] [Illustration: The Sheep Herder’s Breakfast.] [Illustration: The Gold Bug.] [Illustration: An Overland-Station: Indians Coming in with the Stage.] [Illustration: The Well in the Desert.] [Illustration: The Borderland of the Other Tribe.] [Illustration: Her Calf.] [Illustration: A Government Pack Train.] [Illustration: The Charge.] [Illustration: The Pony War-Dance.] [Illustration: The Coming Storm.] [Illustration: His Death Song.] [Illustration: Protecting a Wagon Train.] [Illustration: The Water in Arizona.] [Illustration: Government Scouts--Moonlight.] [Illustration: A Crow Scout.] [Illustration: A Mountain Lion Hunting.] [Illustration: Coyotes.] [Illustration: Hostiles Watching the Column.]