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April 1909 Issue
April 1909 Cover
This magazine has been fully digitized as a part of The Atlantic's archive. Each article originally printed in this magazine is available here, complete and unedited from the historical print. Read more from this magazine, or explore the full archive.
  • The Ultimate Race Problem
    Kelly Miller
  • Imagination in Business
    Lorin F. Deland
  • The Long Road
    John Burroughs
  • Arbutus
    Frank Dempster Sherman
  • The Coöperative Ghosts
    Florence Converse
  • The Diary of Gideon Welles

Arbutus

By Frank Dempster Sherman
April 1909 Issue
Saved Stories
HERE is the last white page of Winter’s Volume of prose, and set thereon,
Fragrant and pink, behold the printer’s Exquisite colophon.