The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-11-28

| to be adopted sons, but the adopted
| daughters make even a longer list, though
their success runs mainly along the line.
| OF fiction and poetry. Some familiar
writers are Kate Douglas Wigein, Mrs
| Flora H. Loughead, Annie NJ. Fitch,
Francis V. Victor, Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
Madge Morris Wagner.
| When California reviews her native sons
and daughters who shine in the literary
world she may be excused for her flutter
OF conscious pride AN older state might
give herself airs. Mrs. A therton is not
only Californian, but she seeks her
inspiration from a, purely California
source-the romance Of the early Spanish
days. May not her state look to her for
the novel of the future to eclipse in in
tersst the story which grew from the pen
OF visitor of a day-Helen Jackson s
Ramona. Mrs. Pacheco, as a drama tist,
has scored a decided success in lncog and
Nothing But Honey. Clay NJ. Greene
has many plays before the public and
bids fair to reach the TOP of the ladder of
fame. Archibald &. Gunter and Richard
Henry Savage may be Justly claimed as
natives, as they came to San Francisco
when quite young and grew up in FER
public schools. Some other of the success.
ful noveIists are Charles Henry Phelphs,
Richard Edward White, Charles Howard
Shinn, Annie Lake Townsend. Mary
Willis Glassoock, Emma Wolf, Ella Sterl-
ing Cummings.
OF short story writers there are great
nun beI, many of whom contribute to the
standard magazines and are we'll known
at home and abroad. California is not
found lacking IN patriotic poems-Em ma
Frances Dawson's Old Glory msy stand
with the Star Spangled Banner, and j.
r. Goodman's poem, Abraham Lincoln.
is one of the great poems OF our nation.
Los Angeles, the land OF sunshine and
flowers must needs draw the soul OF man
to express himself in beautiful word
thoughts, and it is not to be wondered at
that literature is we'll represented by STU
perior writers. Among those who have
found their inspiration in the midst of
orange blossoms and beautiful scenery
are Mrs. Collier Granam, author OF Stories
of the Foothills; Mrs. Jeanne Carr, Grace
Ellery Charming, Mrs. Mary Harte. Mrs.
Burton Williamson, Mrs Madge Morris
Wagner, Jessie Benton Fremont. Mrs.
Endsrline, Mrs. Caroline NJ. Severance,
Professor Holder. Charles Lummis,
Theodore Van Dyke, Lionel A. Sheldon,
A blot Kinney, William +. Charming,
Charles Dwight Willard. OF the latter
Mr.. Hart OF the ATgonaut writes: lit is
melancholy to be forced to add that Mr..
Willard has ceased story writing. He
has become secretary OF the Los Angeles
char Der of commerce and is doubtless
prosperous and unhappy.
OF bright, breezy, witty newspaper
writers there are scores who will, no
doubt, enlarge their fights of fancy as
time rolls on. The editorial we and
the use of nom de plumes prevent the
public from becoming better acquainted
with these wielders q a ready quill.
A state with suchE prodigious natural
advantages-m ountalns, hills, valleys.
sea and pure ozone-for fostering and
drawing out latent Imagination, and
with such an array of talent to begin
with, ought TO be literary center, Draw
ing magazines and publishing houses to
it. Yes, such time will come and Cali
fornia men of letters will stay at home
where their literary tastes may be nour'
shed in pure and healthy atmosphere
discouragIng to the fungus growth Of
The Woman Who Did, Dodo and such
ilk. California may pin her faith to
Gertrude Atherton's prohpesy: "Al
thongn the south may nowl and the
north may boot, venture to predict that
fifty years from now California will be
the literary center of America"
MRS DON A. MACNEIL.