Arizona daily citizen., 1901-03-23
Some Late
Literary Works.

NSA
Maurice Thompson did not live to see
the dramatization OF his novel, "Alice OF
Old Vincennes there is great pathos
in his leaving this world almost at the
beginning of the popular success for
which he had worked and waited. But
his talents were not without apprecia-
tion long ago, and he had an everyday
i'y in life and nature which blessed him
as he went along.
Whenever an author scores a success
his early efforts are sure 10 be dug up,
however deeply they may be buried in
oblivion, and offered to the public, with
or without his consent. Mr.. Anthony
Hope revived more than one of his early
novels after "The Prisoner of Zenda"
had brought him popularity, but in his
case there was no attempt at deception,
and the quality Of his woek in the earlier
books proved to be fully IS good "a that
of his later ones. 1.-THE God in the Car, /"
for instance, was published several years
before ''The Prisoner Of Zeuda," and
alphabetically received; 1t was reissued
after that famous story had had its long
season Of prosperity, and none could do
aught but thank the author and his pub.
fishers for thus giving the world an OPP
portunity to revise its first unjust yer-
dict.
The late Maurice Thompson's "Alice
of Old vincennes" led to considerable
enterprise Of somewhat different kind.
Old stories of his-pot-boilers-practi-
cally forgotten after their short struggle
for existence many years ago, were re-
surrected, cunningly dressed up and ad-
roitly advertised, on the strength of the
OF his last novel. The field
Of American literature is vast enough to
make immediate recognition ofold books
Oh this kind sometimes impossible. 1t
was thus in Mr.. Thompson's case with
more than one experienced hand. Suffice
it to say that "Alice OF Old Nincennes'
is the only new novel by Maurice Thomp-
son now on the market.-Maii and Ex-
press, New York.
From between the Gatcs," by BENZ.
T. Taylor, 1880.
The California Indians have saying
that other trees grow. bat the great
spirit created the seQncias out OF hand.
II is the savage way OF calling them
miracles And they are. for bow q tree
from twenty Ave TO thirty stories high,
and with room II followed, TO shelter
three hundred guests, and leave sfal.
bing quarters on The ground floor for
dozen horses, could have pumped
through the earth aud inspired from the
air material enough TO baiId Itself along
without waiting is incomprehensible-
1t gives You queer feeling
% look at tree in full plamage that
night have been Haunting its green
,eedles when there Was not as much as
! neck OF land in the known world be
ween Liverpool and Honolulu.
II ever tree shotitd have q ton. !
ae, IL is the seqnoias gigantea, the king |
1 redwoods. Somehow it seems to you
uch vastncss shoald appeal to more
ense than one. A man
whose axe used to tick like lively |
lock in ''the sounding woods OF Maine"
SKIS bow much cord wool will one Of |
he big fellows make" The answer. il |
nugly piled along the roadside would |
xtend twenty eight hundred feet, and il !
twenty-five cords winter OF such fuel
will keep his chimney roaring with sa-
one tree would last him six !
eco years.
One after another the wonder-stories !
1 childhood prove true. Lemuel Gull.
er's talent for vegetables lying in his
most Brobdingnagvian mood would not
ave added more than two hundred feet |
o the tallest sequoia which is very short
anee for anybody with gift for draw
ng the long bow.
From Mountaineering in the Sierra
Nevada, by Clarence King, published
n 1871
There is something memorable in the
yet positive colors OF this
'ort OF forest. First, the foliage and
and trunk Of each separate tres con-
trasts finely,--cinnamon and golden |
lpple-green for the pine deep wood color
md bluish-green of fir.
The sky, which at this elevation OF
ix thousand ieet is deep pure blue and |
,ften cloudless, is seen through the
racery Of boughs and tree-tops. which
,ast downward fine and tilmy shadows
lcross the glowing trunks. Altogether
t is wonderful setting for the squoia.
No imperishableness' of mountain. |
,eak or Of fragment Of human work,
,roken pillar or sand-worn image half
fitted over pathetic desert, t,-none OF
hese link the past and today with any.
hing like the power Of these monu.
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