Show i HOMER LEAS descriptive 1 POWERS the following quotation from the vermilion pencil the new romance of china which has created so much discussion since it was published by the mcclure company a few weeks ago not only displays homer leas wonderful descriptive powers but goes tar far to justify the com comparison paxison which la Is being universally made for the new writer with pierre hotl and Lat cadio hearn beam his only serious rivals in dealing with the spirit of the orient the flotsam of 0 humanity like the gift drift of rivers like the derelicts of the sea Is but wreckage of some sort h hurried along in those irre cur CUP rents that we call pate fate each village has haa its little edd eddy 1 where round and round in quiet whirl the neighboring drift collects bach country has its maelstrom a black whirlpool baere w aero is collected the debris of human kind this debris starting at the top in wide circles whirls round swirling d deeper cepe r and deeper until it disappears through that narrow abysmal tunnel funnel these terrible vortices aro are never still and never without their debris london Is such a maelstrom so Is paris so Is new york the world also has ha s its ita colossal eddy but they that drift upon the worlds currents are derelicts not debris it la Is true both are wreckage but there la Is a wide difference between them lebris debris Is scum derelicts are wrecks scum from scum arises derelicts may be the wrecks of greatness debris Is unnamed the 60 house ot of orleans Is a derelict and its princes have died by the wash of the china sea |