The morning call., 1893-12-25

pencil To do the latter work John Muir
was selected. and no better person could
have been chosen. His is national repu-
tation. A life spent in the wildness of
these places enab les him TO describe, as
none other can, the grand sights that day
after day, week after week. month after
month and year after year were revealed
TO his view. Associated with him 10 this
work of pen pieturing were such we'll
Known writers as Joaquin Miller. the
Poet of the Sierras." Professor holden,
professor of the University OF California,
Kae Field and others. The way the beau
tiful illustrations were secured were as
follows: Leading artists of America were
engaged by the publishng-house named to
90 to the spots OF which representations
we're wished and reproduce the scenes in
oils. Among the artists so engaged were
the following: Carl j. Becker, William
NJ. Cary, Reginald C.. Cox. Fred S. CoZzens,
F. o. c. barley, John Durkin, James Fa.
gan, Harry Fem, Stephen j. Ferris. &C.
rome Ferris. Waiter A. Goater. Charles
Graham, Thomas Hill, Henry Ihlefeld. L.
A. Joseph, w. Keith, A. j. Kellar, E. J.
Meeker, Thomas Moran, Nj. Mimm0 Mo-
ran, George W. Plat. c. d. Robinson, Vie
tor S. Perard. Frederick Remington. Julian
Rix, Walter ShiTlaw, w. p. Snyder. George
Spell, Albert Z. Steiner, +. j. Waugh.
The best engravers In the country were
then placed upon the work to bring the
paintings into shape to pablish in book
form.
This, then, is the wonderful Picturesque
California" offered by THE CALL to its
readers numbers of which can be secured
for one coupon and one dime
1t is Impossible 10 review in its entirety
this work that The CALL is almost giying
to its readers. Prior to the appearance of
each number it will be spoken of in detail.
1t is only possible now 10 pick out bits
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be devoted to a series of graphic sketches
of the Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz
Mountains. What is especially brought
out in this paper is the endless contrasts of
light and shade, color and form, fertile
fields and wild mountain scenery which
are presented by ride down through this
garden of the State. and thence through
the mountains to the sea. ln fact, it is a
picture of the State in miniature, present
ing all varieties of scenery and most of the
pursuits Of man. The Santa Cruz Noun
tains afford some fine bits of description.
and Santa Cruz. with its crescent beach
| and its background of magnificent red wood
gulches and mountains, is well depicted
The most satisfactory picture in the num-
Der is furnished by Julian Rix, "a Glimpse
Of the Redwoods on Boulder Creek" which
| is admirably reproduced. Next to this Is
the spirited sketch by Kellar of "The
Beach al Santa Cruz" with a group of
bathers on the outer float. The small
sketches by r x. Perard and others are ex-
Qulsite bits of valley and mountain scenery
Joaquin Miller III one of the numbers
gives characteristic sketch of the great
San Joaquin Valley-its enormous extent
its varied beauty and It's remarkable de-
veiopment in the last decade by means of
irrigation. Those who simply know the
valley from a ride through 1t on the rail-
road can form no idea of the variety of its
resources or of the wealth of the pictur-
esque which the poet sees and reproduces
here in prose that is as rhythmical as
verse. Here is a bit from his picture of
the great valley:
And now, as we set our faces to the southwest
Tor three or four hundred miles Journey
through this vast new paradise, let II be borne
Ia mind that always and forever TO your left,
high hung against the reslful blue of heaven, is
continuous wall of snow. Let it be never so
hot never so sultry, there to the left, almost
within reach as II would seem-so pure so
perfect Is the air heTe-hangs your wide white
world Of snow.
The Illustrations of stock ranges, artes-
Ian wells. rabblt-drives and harvesting are
numei Gus and excellent. The best thing
IS furnished by Tom Hill in EARLY Morn
Ing Among the Tuies"-nunters in fat
boats baggIng fat ducks just as the first
flush of the sun appeirs in the east.
Another OF the numbers Is given up to
washington and Puget Sound" which
John Muir sketches with that lingering
| over the beauties of nature. those many
touches of the beauty of canyon and noun
tain valley that bring into everything
which he writes the aromatic breath of
| pine ana redwood and the sweet odors of
the wild flowers. The wonderful Puget
| Sound country, with its superb Young
] clles-Iacoma and Seattle-is described