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many of them, live. If these persons would not share the high morbidity and mortality rates prevalent among the Chinese, they must live in houses which can be kept clean and fairly cool, which have means for the proper disposal of sewage, and are screened. White persons must, in addition, have vacations and means of relaxation. This applies to all except the rare individuals who thrive on broken rules of health. If a missionary wishes to keep intellectually fit, he must have furlough periods for study. If economy be Mr. Bennett's plea, he should know that preventable sickness and death among missionaries have constituted a much greater waste of money than has the building of modern-style houses and of cottages at summer resorts.

Because the unit of Chinese society is the family, it is surprising that Mr. Bennett has only criticism for the presence of the Christian family in China. Wives and children are an integral part of the Protestant missionary force. Finally, even with living quarters furnished, can a man with children to educate live luxuriously on a salary of four or five dollars a day? That a few missionaries, living in such an expensive city as Peking, have had to supplement their inadequate salaries by selling Chinese products is unfortunate, because it offers a mark for the arrow of the ever-present critic.

WILLIAM G. LENNOX

A voice from the cellar hole.

DEAR ATLANTIC,

REDDING, CONNECTICUT

Your nameless contributor in the sketch entitled 'Cellar Holes,' in the August issue, gave us a slight start, causing my sister and myself, at sixty plus, to feel for the moment at least a hundred and fifty years old! Cellar holes, as the writer gently intimates, are associated in the mind with crumbling gravestones and by no means with continuing activity in the field of letters (or, indeed, in any other). Nevertheless, while our dear childhood home is now one of New England's sadly beautiful abandoned farms, and the Dutch colonial cottage, with its great central chimney inhabited by mysterious soot-winged chimney swifts, its many fireplaces, all-enveloping Virginia creeper, and sheltering maples (not beeches), has become only a memory, even to the shining flight of white marble steps from the 'Goodale quarry' under the mountain, yet the 'Goodale sisters' are still very much alive.

I wish that your contributor had known my sister Dora Read Goodale's recent volume of poems, The Test of the Sky, of which the name poem appeared a few years ago in the Atlantic. As for me, having brought up my family of six (not seven) children, I am writing and publishing

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On page 284 of the August Atlantic I note that Paul Griswold Howes 'discovered a kind of frog that has simplified its existence to such a point that the pollywog stage has been quite eliminated.' I believe that Karl Patterson Schmidt discovered such a frog in Porto Rico in 1919. He was sent here by the American Museum of Natural History to make a herpetological survey of the island.

While he was at his task he found on El Yunque a frog that laid tiny transparent eggs in which could be seen the already developed babies whom fate had spared the tadpole stage. I well remember how our house fairly crept and crawled with specimens brought in by two greatly interested small sons; and particularly the astonishment of us all when Mr. Schmidt produced his vial of transparent eggs with the midget frogs sitting in state therein.

The far-flung Atlantic.

DEAR ATLANTIC,

ANNE H. WALL

GREENE, N. Y.

The unique uses to which numerous fated copies of the magazine have been put tempt me to send this letter of appreciation.

Our copies of the Atlantic have a quite extended sub circulation. For instance, the first six copies of 1928 were read by seven persons, having visited four households. When they come back to me, they, with several other magazines, will go to a leper hospital in South India, following their predecessors of the last five years. There they will be read by missionaries and other members of the hospital staff, then passed out to those patients who are able to read and understand them. Following this, the magazines are used as textbooks in English classes conducted by leprosy patients who have had advantages of higher education.

Was R. W. E. speaking ironically or prophetically when he wrote in his diary, in 1857, concerning the new magazine, Atlantic, 'A journal is an assuming to guide the age - very proper and necessary to be done, and good news that it shall be so - But this journal, is this it? Has Apollo spoken?'

GRACE J. RUSSELL

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