be any collateral descendants living to-day, they could truly be numbered and honored as Dogs of the American Revolution-(D A. R.).

Stony Point juts out into the Hudson on its western bank, opposite Ver Planck's Point, which is eight miles below Peekskill. There was a small fort on each promonotory, thus placed to guard the gate of the Highlands, and when these strongholds were captured by the British, in June, 1779, it was Washington's first anxiety to regain them and thus save West Point.

"General, I'll storm hell if you'll only plan it," said Mad Anthony to the Commander inChief, and on July 15, just six weeks after the loss of the forts, they were recaptured, and the promise was redeemed. Here is the triumphant

looks so soft and lovely in an afternoon light as one sails smoothly past on a river steamboat that it is a surprise on landing to find the approach so steep. The natural fortifications of the site are rendered more impregnable by the island-like situation of the promonotory at low tide. Across this morass, over which a causeway has since been built, marched Mad Anthony's men, each with a bit of white paper stuck in his cap. On meeting the first sentinel, the countersign was given, then followed the skirmish in the midnight darkness till the enemy yielded and the words of the countersign proved prophetic :

"The fort is ours."

We approached Stony Point via the West Shore Railroad, stopping off at Tompkin's Cove, where we hailed a boatman to ferry us out and save ourselves the long march of our ancestors across the causeway. The boatman tarried an hour for his dinner, leaving us scarcely another to take the Point, yet so charming a view was obtainable from the river that we could not regret our plan of campaign.

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We could have wished for less of an Indian summer haze in the air, for less non-actinic yellow foliage, for less sea on the Hudson, and less jarring to the camera, yet the point of view was perfect. Looking northward one Stony Point stretching out on the river, its pines and firs standing like sentinels on its bluffs, while the white bell-tower, a structure without special architectural beauty, gives a point of interest to the picture.

The Society for the Preservation of Scenic and Historic Places and Objects has succeeded in getting a bill passed by the State, appropriating $25,000 for the purchase of this land. The deeds were executed a few months ago and the above named association has the care and jurisdiction of the property. At present there is no money for developing the place, but an appropriation is hoped for, and meanwhile the historic land is in good hands. It is hoped it will be opened as a park to the public at an early date. The State owns all the land between the railroad and the government light-house, the State holding about thirty acres, the government about six.

It was not enough for us to photograph the Point from a small boat two hundred feet off. We landed. We scrambled up the bank. We balanced ourselves as best we could on the ragged edge of nothing at all and took the belltower close at hand. We drank from Mad An

thony's spring which was unfortunately located in a dense thicket at the foot of a dark pine tree beside a gray rock and therefore not to be easily put on a plate be the plate never so sensitive. We photographed the light-house which stands on the remains of the old fort, and when we retraced our steps, we heard in the distance the bark of a dog. Could one have survived? "Bow-wow" snarled the Tory.

LANTERN SLIDE MAKING FOR BEGINNERS.

BY PRIMROSE HILL.

XIV. TONING (OR COLORING) SLIDES. (61) There must be something particularly fascinating about toning slides, if one may esti mate the popularity of the subject from the large number of formulae published, experiments made, and questions asked. By toning we here mean changing the color of a slide; for example, converting a black image into a brown, greenblue, or red one. This is not to be confused with locally coloring, tinting, or painting slides by means of oil, or water color, or dye solutions. It must be remembered that when by some chemical bath we alter the color of the image on a slide we very often also alter the density at the same time. We may increase or reduce density in this way. But in the present chapter we shall give our chief attention to the color change. In this sense the term toning is to be understood for the present.

To give one half of the published formulæ would tend to bewilder rather than help the beginner. Therefore we shall content ourself by quoting a few fairly typical toning baths, and ask the reader to take it for granted that most of those omitted are but unimportant modifications of those quoted.

(62) Let us begin with platinum as a toning agent.