Abstract

Editorials

The article presents news related to political issues in the U.S. Professor Charles Sprague Sargent's death has passed almost unnoted by the public of the country. But the hundreds of thousands who each year visit the country's greatest garden, the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, will remember him. It is his life work, and it is enduring. Author George Moore once complained against the disposition of readers to insist that an author have a sense of humor, and to deny him that quality if he happened to be the kind of author who does not crack jokes. The sense of humor, said Mr. Moore, can be present in the form of a presiding spirit which makes in general for intelligence and illumination, which never ceases to remind both the writer and the reader of that twofold aspect of all things whereby they can seem in a flash either tragic or comic, either lamentable or absurd.