Chapter 2

_Cincinnati Commercial Tribune._--"_The Lark_ is dead, and the _Epilark_ has come and gone, leaving behind them only a haunting echo of joyous song and a love of living delicious to contemplate."

_St. Paul Daily Globe._--"But the mood in which we turn the Japanese pages of the last _Lark_ is anything but flippant. It is something to have known youth and gayety, enthusiasm and a bravery which flies in the face of day, and now--something to have lost them. _The Lark_ has lived and now dies well, and, to some at least, the time of its irregular appearance will no longer be a red-letter day."

_The Philosopher._--"And now _The Lark_ announces its end. It was the freshest, purest breath of air that ever blew across the atmosphere of letters."

_London Times._--"So unique in literature and illustration, we are sorry to note that its publication is to be suspended. The bound volumes for the two years it has been running deserve a place in the libraries of all lovers of the odd and advanced in literature."

_Paragraphs._--"No more shall its cool notes delight the tree-tops, and no longer may we follow in the footsteps of Vivette. It is a pity, of course; but what can you expect? Larks must be fed, and--no one thinks of feeding them."

_Trenton Tribune._--"Its clever foolery shows how big a void was created when _The Lark_ decided to sing no more. _The Lark_ was the one new thing in junior magazinedom that did not outlive its welcome."

_St. Louis Mirror._--"It smacked of Robert Louis Stevenson. It was 'Alice in Wonderland' in picture. It was art through a crazy looking-glass. It was the realism of nonsense. The whole country laughed at the strange pictures with the brilliantly unintelligible verses. But much of it was not understood of the people who need diagrams. _The Lark_ was always too high in the blue for the many; but for those who might mount with him or to him--for those the magazinelet was published. Those enjoyed it; and now they regret it--for _The Lark_ is no more. It was so original that its death is its only unoriginality."

#The Lark Almanac for 1899:#

Being a collection of vagaries from THE LARK, with original designs by Porter Garnett; uniform in size with "The Purple Cow." Price, 50c.

_Published by_ WM. DOXEY, _at the Sign of the Lark, San Francisco_

"Who'll be the Clerk!" "I!" said _THE LARK_.