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Four Minute Essays By Dr. Frank Crane: 101 total pages.

rain or an upland white-swathed in snow; listen patiently and with childlike openness of heart to any of nature's sounds, the moving of the wind among the pines, or the call of birds from the hedge, or the bab­bling of water; study the elusive odors, not only of strongly perfumed flowers, but of such fugacious scents as that thrown off by FOUR MINUTE ESSAYS 119 sawn wood, or rain on a dusty road, or au­tumn leaves, or the fresh greening of spring, or grapes, or hay, or a salt marsh; try to fix and remember what you perceive, let your-self appreciate to the full the subtle mes­sages that nature sends you, and you will find what Grayson says is true, that "this world we live in so dumbly, so carelessly, would be more glorious than the tinsel heav­en of poets, if only we knew how to lay, hold upon it." That is the art of living, the finest of the fine arts. For art, freeing itself from the intemperance of moral purpose, "goes away from God to find God," finds Him best and most truly in the love of His handiwork. The richest lives are

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