Arizona republican., 1905-11-15

time when the control of Alta Califor.
mia passed to los Americanos The
story is of some value in suggesting
the stirring features of that interest
ing episode. The writer has entered
| somewhat into the spirit of old days
before the Gringo came, and that is a
merit all too rare.
Despite the press-the-b button iitera-
ture of department stores and subsi-
| died libraries, there has grown a
| strong movement backward to the
| times when the best of a mans soul
and hand went into the fashioning OF
a book. What an enigma your best
selling book would be to those early
Venetian makers of beautiful books, or
to the monks of the middle ages to
whom the making of a book was a
holy service
This latter-day movement probably
found its beginning in the work of
William Morris and the Kelmscott
Press, and beyond question, the lead
ing exponent of it in the new world is
Gilbert Hubbard and his Roycroft shop.
which is in East Aurora"
And there's a Western Publisher. -
whose latest book-l st I have Just re-
ceived. Paul Elder of San Francisco
puts the best of himself in all of his
products. And he has a line on hap
lpiness. if the creator of the Purple
Cow" knows the recipe: There is
work that is work and there is play
that is play; there is play that is work
and work that is play. And in only
one of these lies happiness"
L have felt a keen interest in the
Of
very humble beginning of it. And in
my limited knowledge Ca lean purse
and toothsome book-list is purgatory
enow) there has been a constant gain
in quality.
The works presented cover a wide
field. There is some sound philosophy
by such thinkers as David Starr Jor-
dan and Albert Shaw. Then you may
pass hours of delight with nature in
Upland Pastures" yosemite Leg
ends" and those dreamful Nature
Leaflets" And for the "Gaiety of the
Nations" Gellett Burgess, Wallace
Irwin (they bind him in de luxe in
bandana), and the three arch twisters
Of the Cynic's Calendar, contribute
slim nonsense volumes of fun and sa-
tire. All of the books / have seen
from this shop are of pleasing formal
Paper type, binding and decorative
features all unite in creating a sense
of serene satisfaction in the owner
ship of them. One of the Impression
Leaflets a quaint ballad of an old
time book-lover, presents admirably
the spirit and purpose OF this crafts
man by the western sea.
o, for a booke and a shade nooke.
Either in-a-doore or out;
With the CREME leaves whispering over
hede.
Or the streete cryes all about
Where 1 male read all at my ease,
Both of the newe and the olde:
For jollie goode books
Wherein to locke,
Is better to me than golde.
at is on the plains of Nebraska and
in the deserts of Arizona. Nevada or
New Mexico that are to be discoveed
those types which may truthfully be
called American" So sayeth Ken
meth Herford in the October Pilgrim"
as foreword to his review of Bronson
Towards new play, 1.-The Squaw-
Man" We knew it, and the light is
breaking in the east.
Than nomenclature there is no finer
art. Doubtless the committee who
have the naming of Funny street at
the Fair will agree. And the wide
interest in the matter is contributory
proof of the Importance of mere words.
have no name to suggest, but sim
ply urge the selection of a Spanish
name-several good ones have already
been presented. And in support of
this l would quote Charles F. Lummis.
That free-lance in southwestern letters
has said the last word on the subject,
it seems to me. There are no more
nomads than words; and
among these wanderers from mouth to
mouth no others have quite such ro-
nance to US as those we have adopted
from Spanish America. With the ebb
and flow of centuries, the immediate
driftwood of the Castilian tongue has
lodged here, there, everywhere. And
when it once came it was never for
gotten. The Iberian had an almost
aptitude at nomenclature
an ear not only for music of the
tongue, but for harmony of meaning
Nothing but words-yet it gives one a
little thrill to find all across the des-
erts where they left their bones. in !
every nook of the unforeseen empires |
that have grown on their dust, these |
footprints of the pio-
neers."