| Show i t I f J Q linJa a 1 J i not I t often aden any I sees the fit fir iv I work worl like likeS III II S Om Inland Sea S a lh thu lU oC oJ which wl hos come from I the pen lJ Jn in or Allied AHren lS lr a 1 i j d it makes mals an epoch CIoch In local l e und and If J I mii n II 1 t it will ultimately lv find its illcO in IiI the or ot tho world It Is not that the We work ork Is Voluminous 01 o t us hut that tl Dt It Is JOss of the qualities ot o nat and ai fl sh 1 is a that make nu kc for I l ea t ll l inZ fl nn I IJ I J am convinced that Sir 11 Lambourne I II I made de no mistake ko when wl e i he lie r f r d to p painting h lh for f the slon Io l and III d love of f na Iii tu e and in i his deep d ep n sense sc so Jt was mv fortune fortu to read r his work ork orkIn in n and l It ed d me li deeply Here wasn fortunate rillo combination tion tJ n of That t Mi Ii L im bourne IJo rJ e is I well l lilted it by l nature at for the i Kilting hg of such a 0 book goes without staying s l H And Al d the thc isolation n dt CI Ills position f ir and an les es especially tion in II this western vestern country c ll his ce on d W iIi I i Island ho was v s struggling ll iJ developed to t establish his hl vainly as It homestead t i and his Iii Vineyard ard was s a a advantage in leading him to the great deep reflections r n with Which tho book abounds The Tho subject matter att r and an tho manner naI ncr of f ent 1 In U with tHo the th mans mind and tho vitalities fu of or tn rl f encountered d In his life work w rl here herc Alvo meaning ann un and a to t tho work a deeper n I Il greater value v Ll m than would havo hav been l possible l iSsI lc under id t other circumstances ch mst es and di It chIS i hall been sU c s I The Tl solemnity and iu d tho th strangeness l tho bc or of the tho Inland I lla 1 tse sea es 11 in I hi western st ln part are ar art ril i Portland p in ithe work Th t s mood d led Him to depict d i lct th j 1 o and i aI of tho Ui w ri rif tul f lb body of C water and ii by 1 sl o oJ land J d lIy s h g J j and solitude of or the distant mountaIn tops In a way vl I J nm a 1 s no other has approached fl this very 1 has led 11 him to lo these unconsciously I the boat best form f of dIH ri Thine is no pait of ork is I studied or or labored labor d dIt It abounds lb i in I i artistic freshness f l o s and n H ln l ht ve v For F ir feat C af that a l may at he I 1 will say a thu tho is Iii designed as 5 t t n of out ou I 1 or or n eh o ex tl tl c urit of f 1 t II sh homo ll cc On Ol the contrary It is a 1 purely p rel 1 production clo with mi Oust enough nou li ot U personal jJ so il history of attempt to make ko a vineyard on on a lonely l lie inland I cJ and enough n i gh d s i 1 of that part of tho ten tri tn serve us a i background i for C r the S discursive II jc inflections llon J on various r us phases il of r lite m md fand d Its philosophy Is ly 1 s ot r commercial c II Iiii in tho uio Nor Is Iii there an 1 pt to t d du tho tiiS s r Ufe tea sJ i fand its ef anil ng in agoo I graphical g pJ tt way Tho US o tho th work Is h GunnIson island d and It 1 ft Hi tho writ ors ri fancy r nei rl U W than il l n his hi descriptive or r narrative ir ability that ranges out ut this and a rd embraces than the th sea tho valley and al the sur r ur mountains r o Tho philosophy y yo of o tIle Is uI hersal lits ait I rt II intensely J local l cI 1 In 1 J its i tto pas passages sages is also 11 so universal this book bo k ono one In J the th public mind nl Alfred Lain LUn has h i h In tho more u as oh artist than lIil u ax II Is Mould 5 g lC say jy unhesitatingly g that f f his L lit Jt a J lllY is g than faB an m In th h 10 Par 1 ar r Held ld In ra rais u is among our orl A ls OCI I wr i st of them all H His is ls s ti J st 1 ii tiny any el local l u e He l e 11 it n l to tiro IC lo ik led stylist master of a ne e IIi n l it peculiarly P his own 01 mm III tJ beauty er of thought and I rh IO is no n I exuberance of sick r and on no attempt unduly tn to senti lI the book with Hh lh a l thought tho or of 0 5 1 R J JJ J |
