Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-28
Long rs God ceases not, cannot cease;
| must arise.

Long rs God CcuscS not, ! cannot cease;
must arise.
1t was by the solicitation OF Mr.. r.. W.
Glider the editor of the Century Maya
zine, that Helen Hunt first tried her pow
err in fiction, and her initial work i'm this
field was "Mercy Philbrick's Choice" the
opening volume of the No Name Series of
Messrs. Roberts Brothers. Bringing them
this manuscript, she wished to publish it
anonymously Mr.. Niles talked the mat
ter over with her, and the result of the
consultation was the devising of the No
trlbuted ''lIetty's Strange History" Her
other books, all published by Messrs Rob
erts Bros, are "The Story of Boon" a
poem Bits of Travel; :" bits of Travel
at Home" Bits of Talk About Home
Matters :" "i5ils of Talk in Prose and
Verse; "Nelly's Silver Nine" Letters
from Cat Nanny Tittleback - "The
Hunter Cats of Connorloa," and her last
and greatest work, "RamOna.' "a Cen
fury of Dishonor' was published by Messrs
Harper Bros, but at Mrs. Jackson's earn
est request, the Roberts house has Just
| purchased the plates from llarper's, and
with the addition of much new matter
! from the author-matter received within
| the last ten dayS-theY are about to issue
| II new edition of this work \ few years
since Helen Hunt was married to Colonel
| w. >. Jackson, II banker of Denver, Col.
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Colorado Springs, and she travelled much
/ through the Western country and passed
seasons in New Mexico and Southern Cal
ifurnia. Mrs. Jackson united, IN II mar
VcllUus degree, the refOrner's instinct with
the power of literary expression and the
artistic feeling that made her expression
vital and graphic. Her versatility was a
perpetually renewing surprise She was
emnently sympathetic with all forms OF
human life. The Indian question enlisted
her active championship for the oppressed
and after the publication of her remarka
bic exposition of these outrages in "A
Century of DishOnOr,' she was appointed
special Indian commissioner by President
Arthur To other authors she was a gene
rOuS, faithful friend. at would be inter
estng to know" wrote Alice Wellington
Rollins of Mrs. Jackson, "how many o
the younger writers of the magazines have
owed their success, not to that instan
recognition of genius by the editor which
is popularity supposed to be the secret, but
to the generous appreciation and recoGlli
ton OF Helen Jackson, who has approach
cu many an editor with manuscript il
hand and insisted You don't want an,
more poetry, | know ; but you Shd}l listen
to this = and who will lend to the poems
Of the 'OX-eyed Daisies by one of tn,
Guudale sisters, or to the Frost of Edit
Thomas, depth of expression, II lowell
ness ui meaning, and grace OF rendering
Inch she would never try to give to he
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NiiI'th thdl ny sen
lhtlt II no liteIal9 woman oI lHe az
If " HON so little has been written as O
| Helen Hunt Jackson. She deprecated al
personal notice ard her feeling about thi
Is well ,NulrSs, ii i'm "A litt lp ESSAY She ,Yrut,
an ~ it ii,rv Uystnri, :, in which .na .,v
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''SWW't'H- ."lo ri'.lio lol PtpiltnS
w ncIt HAY ne lhe Ielilc'iN loI inns W III
spread ANA widely spreading dlSeas
|amCng writers we do not know. 1t is no
easy to keen no COURAGEOUS faith that Their
j. any REMEDY Still nuture abhors uois
nrL t,.tn .,,,i -Lnu,u nf III enrtI. l,,,iu
"n't ,"S'r' n'' S','tii'e ol an Sot "Iie
W"' Pow ~ ~ "'' NV -iN"' ~ iO'' VI ~
force, whether IT be a mountain or Il sou
hat she would fashion. We must DelleN
that sooner or later there will come tim
. i'm which silence shall have its dupS moo