Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Writings of John Burroughs
It is curious what an uncertain and seemingly capricious thing literary value is. How often it te fuses to appear when diligently sought for, labored for, prayed for; and then comes without call to some simple soul that never gave it a thought. Learning cannot compass it, rhetoric cannot com pass. It, study cannot compass it. Mere wealth of language is entirely inadequate. It is like religion often those who have it most have it least, and those Who have it least have it most. In the works of the great composers - Gibbon, De Quincey, Macau lay it is a conscious, deliberate product. Then, in other works, the very absence of the literary mo tive and interest gives an aesthetic pleasure.
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