Arizona republican., 1919-04-13
SUNDAY MORNING. APRIL 1s. 1919
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men lib orally, and upbraideth not; and 1t shall be given him--James 1, 5.
Some Things Are Too Big

Mr. Goyerneur Morris, a well known short story wrfter with what imagine to be tnge of inn patience mentions that great novel based on the world has not yet been attempted-and peace has not yet been formally made. He expresses some doubt whether there will ever be such novel. It may be stated in advance that there will be, and it may be added that already had enough short stories with the for background to add greatly to the of the conflict. We sicker of the than would otherwise be but for the shoa of the short story writers
 Only a lunatic win attempt the ~great novel" and he will be foredoomed to failure A novel as well as d poem, to be great, must be the work of great imagination and the war, like all great wars, has left nothing to imagination: it has surpassed all humaE imagination There is nothing conjure up that will equal the glory. the spenor the horror of the The highest flight of imagination must fall immeasurably short of it
 Twenty-Five years ago Rev. Dr. F, W. Gunsaulus visited the Grand Canyon for the first time something which then comparatively fe wtourists had seen On his return to Chicago he szid he could not describe it. 1t was beyond description If anyone would have been equal to such task surely it would have been Dr. Gunsaulus- But he never attempted it's description beyond the statement that it could be described That left it grand mystery which attracted thou sands from all over the world.
 Since then and hundreds of little writers have attempted to describe the canyon. They have heabored the dictionary for adjectives and when that source failed them they coined adjectives But every description of that great gash in the world has only belittled has made it seem less worth see ing If writer of supernatural powers should sometime write adequate description of it. he would not be understood except by those who had visited it and not by all of them.
 Now and then has decribed tn an interesting and instructive manner some small section of the canyon, just as painter has and then given us
 glimpse of bit of gorgeous coloring. And so have the imagnaons of great novelists and poets devel- oped some incidents of great battles We have such an instance in Hugos "Les Miserables" where we are siven brief but thrilling view of Waterloo. Byron portant battle of Balacaya has been inmortazed by that bunder which "'rhe Charge of the Light Brigade"
 We have many historical novels which carry us through great epochs-for instance that series of Dumas beginning with the "Memoirs of a Physician" and ending with the "Chevalier de Maison Rouge" rom which one may acquire foundation for a study of the French Revolution We have also the Muebach novels. But in of these has the writer been he rayed into wandering far from the comrnonnlaca paths of the men and women, real and imaginary, whom he has introduced
 Some one may attempt great war novel but he can lind no responsible publisher to bring it out. and If 1t should be brought it would be read only by those who find something attractive in the ridiculous