Barrus, Clara / 2008-06-23 00:00:00
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OUR FRIEND JOHN BURROUGHS
by: Clara Barrus
[Illustration: John Burroughs. From a photograph
by Theona Peck Harris]
CONTENTS
OUR FRIEND JOHN BURROUGHS
THE RETREAT OF A POET-NATURALIST
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
ANCESTRY AND FAMILY LIFE
CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
SELF-ANALYSIS
THE EARLY WRITINGS OF JOHN BURROUGHS
A WINTER DAY AT SLABSIDES
BACK TO PEPACTON
CAMPINGING WITH BURROUGHS AND MUIR
JOHN BURROUGHS: AN APPRECIATION
OUR FRIEND JOHN BURROUGHS
We all claim John Burroughs as our friend. He is inextricably
blended with our love for the birds and the flowers, and for all
out of doors; but he is much more to us than a charming writer of
books about nature, and we welcome familiar glimpses of him as one
welcomes anything which brings him in closer touch with a friend.
A clever essayist, in speaking of the "obituary method of
appreciation," says that we feel a slight sense of impropriety
and insecurity in contemporary plaudits. "Wait till he is well
dead, and four or five decades of daisies have bloomed over him,
says the world; then, if there is any virtue in his works, we will
tag and label them and confer immortality upon him.
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