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Show FRI8C0'8 CROP OF GENIUS. Second Only to New York In Vigor and Freshness of Its Literature. Now York Is of courso the great American market for literary wares, says E. S. Martin in Appleton's Magazine Thcro is also a measure of hospitality shown to writers and their products In Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago Chi-cago and Indianapolis. Dut San Francisco for thirty years past has beaten all four of these subsidiary sub-sidiary literary centers In tho freshness fresh-ness and vigor of its Inspirations. It has had an ocean of its own to stimulato its Imagination, a new country coun-try behind and about It and an adventurous ad-venturous and virile population that has liked to llvo Its own Hfo in Its own way and dream and llvo Its own romances. It has had monoy, too. It has sent out Its envoys to vlow the world (and a good many of thom havo stayed away), and becauso It has been one of tho world's great starting places (and landing places It has viewed ha-,yjbally ha-,yjbally from its' own doorstep pretty xpbh every kind of human creature that has been worth looking at. Altogether, San Francisco has been Ue no otlior city of our ropubllc. |