Palisadian., 1923-06-22

| the bee, the most constantly perfect
product of animate life the peculiar
composition of those of the Songs
which are admitted to be character
istic of the New Expression and you
will readily detect and sense an un-
mistakable, distinctly perceptible, spon-
taneOus and constant flow Of the spirit
Of things. In these compositions you
! will find no modern Whitmanesque or
| Kiplingesque limitations; no forms Hf
ode, hymn, sonnet or other ancient
modes. While all these forms are sug-
gested and appear, more or less incor-
| porated in the text, yet the impulse
| and tendency is all toward flow.
Whatever combinations of forms are
visible, simple or complicated, it Is
secondary feature, mere vehicle
which carries the passenger of spirit.
do mountains, streams, canyons,
rocks speak and converse with the
human soul in some kindred mystery
of spirit? AS clouds, sunshine and
shadow, storm and the wheeling plan
EtlS dlllIlldlC give CApi Co
sion to the vast muteness of crag and
pinnacle, so human thought lends ami
nation to the still and silent things
through literary expression as dictated
by the genius which senses the mystic
impulsions of the otherwise voiceless
spirit Of things"
$50 faithfully has Hewes attended to
his gift, with his perceptions height
ened and perfected by his immense
reading applied, unlearned and spOnta-
neous, as the bee selects its honey from
the flowers in the delicate and eX-
quisite subtIeties of pure instinct, that
IL the Rocky Mountains were to be
swept from the earth tomorrow or sunk
in the depths of the sea. they would
live, sublime, inspiring and vividly WIS.,
ioned and portrayed in the Songs"
So says the memorandum.
Longs Peak also casts It's afternoon
shadow on the cabin Of Dean Babcock,
illustrator of Songs" He was born
in Canton, Ill.,, thirty-five years ago and
homesteaded in Tahosa valley about
the same time as the poet. He is hap
PLY married, has children and has been
surveyor and park ranger. He"is now
winning an enviable reputation as an
artist. In OIL black and white design
and plain and colored block prints, he
has attracted much attention. His
painting of Mount Orton in Rocky
Mountain National park, which the fed
,o,,t haS
in honor of Col. Edward Orton, Jr
received high praise at the exhibition
this spring at the Columbus Gallery of
Fine Arts; it will eventually hang in
the Orton Memorial library at Ohio
State university. OF his friend and
himself the poet writes:
"At first strangers and mere ac-
quaintances, they later became init
mate neighbors and long periods of
winter and snowbound experiences de-
veloped strong friendship. While
Babcock has gone the somewhat con-
ventional rounds of school, college,
American Art academy and European
atelier, yet, like Hewes, he is pos
sessed fundamentally of an inherited
genius, striving for its particular OBJ
ject. Perhaps no volume ever before
in the history of art and literature,
combining verses and sketch, was pro-
duced so spontaneously, both author
and artist working Independently of
each other, yet each expressing in
their particular field the same thing.
For example, his cover design in gold,
represents The Dawn Of New Ex-
pression'-the figure of the Muse seat
ed, playing her violin In the shadow,
while on the mountains in the high
background is breaking a golden dawn.
"Thus," concludes the poet, Mystic
and inn-keeper, "in the tiny valley at
the foot of Longs Peak, and in what
was not long ago the unbrokcn wilder
ness, dwell the creators Of New Ex-
pression.'