| Show CROP OF GENIUS second only to new york in vigor and freshness of its it literature new york Is ot of course the great american market for literary baies says E D S martin la in appleton Apple tons 9 magazine there Is also a measure of hospitality shown to writers and their products in boston philadelphia chicago and indianapolis dut but san francisco tor for thi thirty arty years past has beaten all four our of these sub sillary literary centeio in the fresh ness and vigor of its inspirations it has had bad an ocean of its own to stimulate its imagination a new coun try behind and about it and an ad venturous and virile population that has liked to live its own life in its own way and dream and live its own romances it has had money too it has sent out its envoys to view the and a good many of them have stayed away and because it has been on one 0 ot of the world a great starting places and landing places it has viewed ha ritually bitu ally from its own on doorstep pretty much every kind of human creature that has been worth looking at altogether san francisco has been 11 ua a no other city of our republic |
