| Show VT iong peak in apes bevre kp haw alivey THERES A LAND theres a land where mountains and glaciers waters that fill up u p tile tho seas where canyons squeeze rivers to ribbons and dark forests nair in tho the breeze ahls land Is where both worlds are closer the world of god clod and tho the world of man vor for their greeting point is in nature A langu lari guage aero i all understand CHAn LBS EDWIN cawes mawes i by JOHN SHERMAN HARLES EDWIN HEWES poet mystle mystic and iiii keep or in tahosa valley tit nt tho the foot of tongs longs peak in rocky mountain national pa park rk serves notice on tho lio literary world that tho the iman man mado west with nature as a mero mere background for forest d destroying bs tro ying cow punching savages Is out of dato date henceforth forth and that a god modo mado west with man mail in tits his proper place and tho the speaking for themselves Is now revealed through tho the now ex pre salon verso verse of tile revised and enlarged barged edition of ills hla songs of tho the 11 says kays mr howes A half century ago tho western ranges were mostly described by lit j crary arary travelers trav clera as mining ng camps gam bling liella hella lin tints of desperadoes and itaho the goal of the tunneling railroad engl cleor bret harte eugene field stevenson bayard taylor and others described more or less a very man imin mado 01 A i region y choro avry prospect pleases i and only mark mat Is vile ionly only a little oyer a decade back bacic tile the 4 I 1 cowboy i and tho wild west show held t public pu db lle attention and tho the mountains sill ofell a were moro background for tile tho trough rough riding genus homp I 1 today however tho the brockles are beginning to 0 bo be appreciated for their truo irtie ad glory continues mr i hows in ili tho iho now expression they speak for themselves wo no longer freve luul ahem alem mun made but god od avio revealed aled in sup cinal ni sublimity and iho ho alps and andes of a n now new find and west in ill tilts tills estimate man Is ignot not or gotten lie ho Is put 7 in ili correct alignment instead of fin an ignorant militant forest dest destroying in ili iio cont animal idillia dynamite explode ing cow punching savage lie ho Is Is presented as lie ho truly IS refined ned civilized awed and humbled before tile tho super creations of tho the groat first cause ho he Is invited to so conduct ills his life as to match and respond to 4 tile tho puro pure chastity tile the elevation and tho the profound of the snowy range with equal virtues and ionti loftiness of soul the establishment of the rocky 1 mountain national bark in 1015 found tho the originator r of the new expression tal taking ing in tourists in kahoa vat val ley of tho the estes park region since then by official figures thoro there have been 1 12 visitors to the park paric with tho the result that n R whole lot of people in all parts of the country know ac charito Charl lin fife to hewes in at least ono one of ills his several capacities sortie somo swear by him as boniface and at him lis as poet doubtless somo some swear vice inasmuch as the first edition of tits his songs lias has been sold out though never reviewed in theoress the press or advertised except by more mere word of mouth mention th tharo ere are many of course who J swear not nt lit all concerning blowes tile lie mystic some of them are rather awed but it takes all kinds of people to niala a world and most of them alm soy Y efow how does lie ho get that h way and lot it go nt at that in response to my inquiry along the g camo line ilde and for the facts concerning the new expression andeits and its originator Igi mr howes obligingly furnishes me with quits quite a comprehensive i memorandum and with permission to 1 uso it if verbatim to quote it or other i 0 wise unfortunately there Is not bance hero here fer it verbatim nevertheless what follows may bo be considered official CLAI analie information axy t na M W 4 v 4 ke 41 JONG S I 1 it appears from the memorandum that mr howes hewes Is of welsh descent tempered with english tho Eg ertons and halmers palmers Pal Pa liners mers who are still numbered among tile the peerage ilia his Ani american orlean ancestors landed in both new england and virginia early in colonial days lie ho was born in ISTO in ili bobae iowa lie ho worked as a railway until 1007 when with ills mother and brother lio lie settled on it a homestead in rabosa tabosa valley at the foot of longs peak ills schooling ended with gitil a brief period in a high school an ali int intense T inherent passion for bools books and alla reading however put him far beyond the average adult reader by the time lie was sixteen at tho the ago age of twenty ones one in seattle says the memorandum camo callio f faco ace to faco face a remarkable psychic mystery and from that almo forward lie ho became in every sense of 0 tile word it a mystic tile pages ut of ills his autobiography from tills time on exhibit a visionary and ecstatic soul struggling in the grasp of tile the world to rouse it to success tul ful efforts for a livelihood and to maintain a reasonably normal mental balance foiled apparently almost despairing of his efforts to penetrate beyond a certain point in the contemplation of ills hla mystery continues tho the memorandum hewes turned to tho me visible things of nature that ho he found about him in his mountain retreat and poured out his heart and emotions upon them theli ecstasy prayer worship adomat adoration 10 n and many threads of mystic correspondence are still in evidence In this latest volume one thing Is sure no matter how fiercely the critics may wrangle over the merits of ills his verse mr hewes la is to bo be congratulated on tho the timeliness of ills bis now new bopre expression aslon ll 11 probably verso verse of all kinds was never so popular us as now and certainly many of tho the poets of or today have cut loose from froin nil all literary traditions of form or of course being a mystic tile tho poets choice of 0 subjects Is ts as chacto agthe QS tho snow topped peaks though there are poems on almost do as many themes but when it cornea comes to form well heres what mr uin says about that thai howes vast and comprehensive readings andre and ire readings of tho the Nv worlds literature have resulted so far as literary composition Is concerned not in tho the academic gymnastics of a or verse versi maker but in a pe pc culler manipulation metre rhyme measure technique and form all ali seem to melt down into pure spiritualities substitute in literature tor tho the cell of the bee tho the most constantly product of animate III life e tile tho to peculiar cullar composition of 0 those of t tho lie songs which aro are admitted to bo be characteristic Is of h now new expression ea cpr slon and you w will 19 11 readily de detect and sensa ha an intili unmistakable distinctly perceptible spontaneous trine ous and constant ilow flow of tile the spirit of things in those compositions rom posItIons you will find no modern modem or Kipling esquo imitations no forms of ode hymn sonnet or other ancient modes while nil all these forms are suggested and appear more or less lesa incorporated in the text yet et tho imp impulse alse ulse and tendency Is nil all toward how whatever ver combinations of forms are visible simple or complicated it Is a secondary feature a mero vehicle which carries the passenger of spirit do mountains streams canyons rocks speak lind and converse vath wl th the human soul in some kindred mystery of spirit As clouds sunshine and shadow storm and the wheeling 0 eeling planets animate the inanimate give expression to the vast muteness of crag nna and pinnacle so human thought lends animation to io tile the still and silent things through literary expression as dictated by the genius which senses the mystic masti C impulsions of tile the otherwise voiceless voice less spirit of things so f faithfully alth fully has howes attended tp to ills gift with his perceptions perception s heightened and perfected by his reading applied unlearned and spontaneous na as the bee selects its honey from the flowers in ili tile the delicate and ai exquisite subtleties of pure instinct that if the rocky mountains were to bo be swept from the earth tomorrow or sunk in the depths of the sen sea they would live sublime inspiring and vividly vii boned and portrayed in the songs so bo says the memorandum longs peak also clista its afternoon aft ernson shadow on the cabin of illustrator of songs tie lie eps born in danton canton ill thirty live years ago and homesteader homesteaded ed in talicia valley about the same time as the poet lie he Is happily married has children and has been surveyor and park ranger lie ilo Is now winning tin an enviable reputation as an artist in oil black and white design and plain and dolored block prints he has haa attracted much attention his painting of mount orton in rocky mountain national park which the f federal ed government has recently named in honor of col edward orton jr received high praise at the exhibition this spring at the columbus gallery of pine fine arts it will eventually hang in 16 I 1 the orton M memorial morial library kry at ohl ohio 0 state university of his friend and himself the poet writes at first strangers and more mere ac luain they latr later became anti inti mato neighbors and long periods of winter and snowbound experiences dej d voloyed n strong friendship chile babcock has gone tile the somewhat conventional vent ional rounds of school college american art academy and euro european atelier yet like hewes lie ho is possessed hessed fundamentally of tin an inherit Intieri tod genius striving for its particular object perhaps no volume over before in the history of art and literature combining verses and sketch was produced so spontaneously both author and artist working independently of each other yet each ex expressing ng in their particular field tho the same thing for example ills hla cover design in gold represents presenta re tho itile dawn of a ow ex pres slon the figure of the muse seated playing her violin in the shadow I 1 while on the mountains in tho the high background Is breaking a golden dawn thus concludes the poet my mystic aftic and innkeeper inn keeper in the tiny valley at tho toot foot of longs longa perk peak find and in what was not long ago the unbroken uno wilder n nc ss dwell the creators of a new arx slon 0 ts pres |
