Germinal, Floreal, Prairial

Germinal, Floreal, Prairial

These were names given to the Spring months at a famous time some hundred years ago, when men in the April folly of their hearts dreamed that they could make all things new.” References myth, fairy tale, legend symbolic of spring, including Pan; “in the words of the biologists, [spring] is the time of variation”—no child like another

Epigraph (unattributed, but taken from Robert Louis Stevenson's "The House Beautiful")

Essay by J. Arthur Thomson

Headpiece, tailpiece and initial by W. Smith

Patrick Geddes & Colleagues

Spring 1895

Image engraving by Hare Sc

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Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019.

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