Editorial Comment for this plate:

A COTTAGE CORNER.

It is with especial pleasure that we present our readers this week, the picture entitled “A Cottage Corner,” by Alfred Stieglitz, of Berlin, Germany.

Concerning the picture, Herr Stieglitz writes as follows, from Germany: “While spending a few days in the highly picturesque and beautifully situated little town of Pallanga (sic?-editor) on the Lago di Maggiore, I took a rather long walk with my friend, the camera, one evening, and was charmed with the picturesqueness of the style of architecture of the houses occupied by the poorer classes. I photographed the reproduced bit, simply on account of its picturesqueness and as a study. The house had no other centre of attraction, and was of no historical interest.”

It is certainly of great pictorial interest, and being a characteristic cottage corner in Italy, possesses an added charm for our readers. (p. 479)