Editorial Comment for this plate:

BY THE RIVER AGAIN.

OUR illustration some weeks ago, entitled “By the River,” and the half promise then given that, later, other similar sensible bits of nature made in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, during the pleasant afternoon outing, when it was photographed, might be reproduced in these columns, met with so hearty a reception, that we have ventured to give another glimpse of the same “river.” It might more accurately be entitled, perhaps, “By the Lake,” or a “Glimpse of the Lake,” for it is really a bit of the picturesque lake-shore in the park, and not a river, which is depicted. Mr. Edwards, the author of the charming view, can only plead “poetic license” for his title. (p. 139)