State Normal Magazine, Vol. 16
Author: State Normal and Industrial College
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-08-26
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781333371562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from State Normal Magazine, Vol. 16: March, 1912 The charm of Burroughs' writings is largely due to his personal familiarity with nature. He loves nature and he loves life. His own words, 'now and then a man appears whose writing is alive; it is full of personal magnetism, ' may be said to describe his own works. This personal familiarity enables him to avoid the catalogue form, a fault so common among outdoor books. He knows birds as individuals, and loves each one. In their songs he even finds expressed the emo tions of the human heart. To the bobolink he has ascribed hi larity and glee, to the mockingbird love, to the robin a note of boyhood, to the catbird vanity, and so on through the whole category of birds. Can we wonder then that his works are so full of personal magnetism, when all of nature is so nearly a part of his very life? Some may say that his style is homely in its simplicity, but I think that it is all the more forceful and charming because of having this simplicity. It is forceful, too, in that it is free from super uous details. Burroughs seems to have what so many authors lack, the valuable art of being able to separate the essential from the non-essential. It is said that he never takes a notebook with him when he goes out on his walks, but waits until he returns and then writes down what he remembers that is most striking and important. In this way he writes without the many non-essential details that would creep in were he to write while out on his walks with so much material around him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."