A WET NIGHT IN MADISON SQUARE

This picture shows one of the illuminated advertising signs so familiar to New Yorkers.

ONE OF NEW YORK'S FAMOUS CAFÉS AT TEN O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING about a "crazy man;" others, again, stood motionless, stared for a few moments with a stolidity and perseverance that were astounding, and then passed on.

With regard to the history of night photography, I should like here to mention that it was Paul Martin, of London, who in 1896 first discovered its possibilities. His photographs of "London by Night" showed the picturesque beauties of the streets of a great city under electric light. "A Corner of Trafalgar Square" and "A Wet Night" were revelations as to the opportunities available. W. A. Fraser,

the wake of the headlights right across the picture, as was unavoidably shown on the Brooklyn Bridge and Flatiron Building photographs.

No rule can be given regarding the time of exposure; each subject requires special thought and a careful previous review of the light conditions. While I gave the bridge picture twenty-one minutes' exposure because there was fog and comparatively little illumination, the Broadway store had only one minute; so with every phase of this fascinating work, it is a matter of judgment rather than of rule,

AT THE ENTRANCE TO CENTRAL PARK

This picture was taken after one of the heavy snow-storms of the winter.

and experience will prove the best guide. If, for instance, you give a picture too long an exposure, you will find in your result that you have entirely lost the true night effect, and the result will appear in many particulars to have been made in daylight. Again, if the exposure is too short, you will get nothing but a great blackness studded here and there with specks of light. All of the delicate detail

in the shadows, so necessary to the pictorial value, will have been lost. I advise any one, before he goes out to attempt this kind of work, to study very thoroughly the conditions of light.

The ability to see is everything in photography-especially in night photography. If there is little illumination, there will be little good in making a picture. If, again, there is light from a variety of

The Path of Roses

By Priscilla Leonard

Before some happy feet

The roses blossom all along the way

In fragrance summer-sweet.

O careless path of joy!-yet happier they
Who, toiling on alone

Where never has the road been aught but rough,
And never rose has grown,

Find, even in their stumbling, strength enough
To plant with patient hand

The seeds of gladness, till behind them spring
Flowers in the desert land,

Roses more rich than careless joy can bring!