ABSTRACT
To test the author estimate of Geddes, the author thought of asking five of those who have known him, or at least heard of him and his work on different sides, to express themselves regarding how he appears to each of them from various viewpoints. The Evergreen was not established as an antidote to the Yellow Book, though it might well seem a colour counter-symbol—the green of Spring set against the yellow of decadent leaves. It is, indeed, an antidote, but undesigned, else had not yellow figured so profusely upon the cover. In this University Settlement the publishing and writing department is to represent the scriptorium of the ancient monasteries. An aspiration with which all intelligent men must sympathize. The quest at once of local colour and cosmopolitanism is not at all self-contradictory. The truest cosmopolitanism goes with the intensest local colour, for otherwise contribute nothing to the human treasury and make mankind one vast featureless monotony.
