Current Events Pictorially Treated

THE OUTLOOK. SEPTEMBER 13, 1916

THE PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN-MR. HUGHES SPEAKING FROM A RAILWAY CAR ON HIS WESTERN TRIP

SIR RABINDRANATH TAGORE, THE INDIAN POET, IN A JAPANESE GARDEN Sir Rabindranath is soon to make a lecture tour in America, it is reported. The picture shows him (at the left) in the gardens of Count Okuma, in Tokyo, Japan. He is the best known of present-day Indian poets and philosophers

This painting, recently completed, is by M. Besnard, Director of the French Academy, for whom Cardinal Mercier gave sittings for the portrait in Rome, after being expelled from Belgium. The picture portrays powerfully and sympathetically the appeal of the aged Cardinal to the Christian sentiment of the world against the brutality of German militarism. An article giving a personal

impression of Cardinal Mercier appears in this issue

The huge mass of granite in the center of the picture, which contains over half a million cubic feet, or five thousand car-loads, at present lies in the
town of Barre, Vermont. It will soon be scattered all over the world in the form of monuments, memorials, and public and private buildings, through
the work of the three hundred men who are for the moment resting on its surface, and countless local workers. That this gigantic rock, one of the
hardest of substances, can be divided accurately into sections and transported to great distances by the pygmies perched upon it presents striking
evidence of man's control over nature

MAKING TOYS FOR SICK CHILDREN IN THE OLD MEN'S WORKSHOP The Old Men's Workshop is conducted by the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. Lately the shop has been especially busy in turning out toys for hospitals in which victims of infantile paralysis are being treated. The men work only six hours a day, for many of them are feeble and cannot work long even at the light tasks provided for them