The New York herald., 1922-12-03
How Burroughs Wrote the" Tarzan" Tales

demand with series of short stories under
the title of The Jungle Tales of Tarzan.''
He released eight short stories from Oak
Park, ILL.,, and Los Angeles Cal, 1916 and
1917. These stories dealt with that period
in the life of Tarzan before he knew aught
of white men or civilization. The prepara-
ton of these stories taxed his ingenuity
and caused him as much effort as three
novels but the popularity of Tarzan sur
vived.
"Tarzan the Untamed"' the seventh book
written In Oak Park and Los Angeles in
1918 and 1919, was a contribution to the
history of the late lamented world war and
explained how Tarzan won German East
Africa from the enemy drafting at will the
assistance of the British army, which,
hooked up with Tarzan's own amazing
muscular gifts. enabled him to win from
start to finish.
The seventh volume is the only Tarzan
book that has not been reprinted in the
German language.
"Tarzan the Terrible,"' the eighth volume,
came to light in 1920 at Tarzana Ranch.
Reseda, Cal, Mr.. Burroughss present home.
A year or so before the late Walter Winans,
Esq. of London, began to send Burroughs
clippings relative to purported encounters
between white and native hunters. and
some huge creatures of prehistoric appear
ance in the swamps of central Africa
Mr. Winans gave guarantees in the belief
of the existence of such a creature Pred-
Gated upon this belief Burroughs con-
-fr tpd fha
rible" and wove the story of the Ho-don
and the Waz-don and the land of Pal-ul-
don. The author regards these as his most
fascinating experiment in the enterprise
OF creating monsters. He always felt that
he would have had his moneys worth i'm
entertainment had the book been fiat
failure. On the contrary, it was a tre-
mendous success
And now again TarZan emerses from his
jungle vastness in the ninth story. the
opening chapters of which appear in this
current number of the Ar0osy-AV-Story
Weekly under the title of 'Tarzan and the
Golden Lions The author takes the reader
into another world in Central Africa that
only Tarzan could have found and con-
quered The villains come all the way from
London TO rob the treasure vaults of Opar
and they arrive at about the same time
that Tarzan comes after another supply to
fill his war chest. The Golden Lion came to
him cub and was curbed to the mas
ters will. Together the king of beasts and
the king of the jungle wage war against
their enemies conquer the holy city of
the Flaming God, steal the ruling power
from La and defeat the race of gorilla men
who inhabit the Valley of Diamonds In
this story you will have Edgar Rice Bur-
roughs at his best and Tarzan at his
bravest.
1t is interesting to know that the Tarzan
tales have been translated into Swedish,
Norwegian Danish. Dutch. German Rus
sian and Arabic. Offers have been made
for the French, Spanish and Italian trans
lation rights, which the author is not yet
prepared to negotiate
Truly the history of Tarzan as created
by Edgar Rice Burroughs. is in itself a
wonder story of magic and imagination.
1-TARZAN OF THE APES. All story Oc-
tober. 1912 (complete)
2-THE RETURN OF TARTAN. Neo stoyv
Mogaeime, June to December. 1913.
THE BEASTS OF TARTAN. AH-story-
Cavalier, May 16 to June 13, 1914.
THE SON OF TARTAN AH-story. De-
cember 4. 1915, to January s, 1916.
5-TARZAN AND THE JEWELS OF oPAR.
AHStory, November Is to December
16, 1916.
s-THE JUNGLE TALES OF TARzAN.