Sisters, the
Produced by David Widger THE SISTERS, Complete By Georg Ebers Translated from the German by Clara Bell DEDICATION TO HERR EDUARD von HALLBERGER Allow me, my dear friend, to dedicate these pages to you. I present them to you at the close of a period of twenty years during which a warm and fast friendship has subsisted between us, unbroken by any disagreement. Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have
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." But Mr.
Burroughs has not had to wait till the daisies cover him to be
appreciated. A multitude of his readers has sought him out and
walked amid the daisies with him, listened with him to the birds,
and gained countless delightful associations with all these things
Produced by David Widger THE SISTERS, Complete By Georg Ebers Translated from the German by Clara Bell DEDICATION TO HERR EDUARD von HALLBERGER Allow me, my dear friend, to dedicate these pages to you. I present them to you at the close of a period of twenty years during which a warm and fast friendship has subsisted between us, unbroken by any disagreement. Four of my works have first seen the light under your care and have