Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
GREAT SALT LAKE
IN POETIC PROSE
Alfred Lambourne Completes Ex-
tensive Manuscript on Its
History and Beauties.
RESULT OF EXTENDED STUDY
For Many Years the Author Has lnti-
matcIy Known and Loved tho
Subject of His Volume.

| Great Salt lake. coming 20 It's own
after 50 years of neglect, is soon to be
| celebrated In book of deep literary
| feeling. written by one who spent many
years upon its islands. and loved them
when such love was much less popu-
lar than at present.
Alfred Lambourne. always pioneer
in seeking the wasatch mountain
points of poetic inspiration. found Great
Salt lake early in his life, lived upor
It's islands many months, and as his
fancy ran from crag to crag of it's
higher island peaks, he gradually
wrought out passages of description.
and paintings OF imposing battle OF
wind OF wave
All of these have now been brought
together, and ana soon to be published
under the name of "Our Inland Sea-
The book viii be a large one and viii
fttIngly set forth the mighty, II mucn
neglected. charms of the great body
of water which Is now for thu irst time
becoming freely accessible to the navi-
gator
CHIEF EFFORT.
Mr. Lambourne considers 1t his chief
work, and the most matured effort OF
preliminary sketches of the completed
work were published In pamphlet form
and the union Pacific found 1t at once
q book much In demand Edition aft
err edition was published by the rail-
road, and exhausted until l,OOO'uou
copies had been distributed. 1t was
in no sense an advertising book, but
was written as o permanent contribu-
ton to the descriptive and poetic liter
AZURE of the west.
Since the success of this first effort
Ma. I,ambourne has thoroughly re-
visad the text. enlarged ii to several
times its previous Size and now has It
completed. just as new and sudden
interest in the lake is sweeping over
the country.
The full title Is "Our Inland Sea, with
tho story of n Homestead" by Alfred
Lambournc. II is in 81 chapters, with
an introduction and preface. and nine
Illustrations.
PAINTINGS OF ISLAND CLIFFS.
The illustrations deal with the tops
of the Wasatch. the source of the
lakes stream feeders, as we'll as with
scenes of beauty upon the great body
of water In the introduction sketch
OF the lake In trapper and pre-pioncer
history Is given, with n short review
of Captain Bonneville's visit in 1888,
and the visit of other trappers of that
era.
The first description given at length
Is that OF Gunnison's island, pictured
In its winter glory. with other pictures
of the authors recreations and thoughts
while waiting for the SHOWS to pass.
wild and Windy March" follows, and
this in turn is followed by The Month
of the Rose Under the Dog Star"
THE Autumnal Equinox" and My
HOMESTEAD Horizons with number
of other chapters dealing less directly
In description of lake vistas.
After the conclusion of the book IT.
self n supplement Is added in which
many questions received by the au-
thor are answered, and general de-
scription of the lake given.
WONDERFUL ATTRACTION.
1t is Mr.. Lambourne's conviction that
the people of Utah have in the lake
g scenic attraction without a rival in
the world, and thoroughly unique. II
has been neglected because the interest
In other Things absorbed a young
community, and he now looks for II to
receive public attention far out of pro-
portion to that heretofore given II, and
soon to be the scene of many boating
parties both with steam and sail. It's
Islands, he is confident, Will become
the summer rendezvous OF Measure
seekers. and its reefs and cliffs the
admiration of all who love the neaut,-
full effects of natures handiwork The
commencement of lake excursions he
considers the beginning Of an import
ant era in its history.