The California Birthday Book

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The California Birthday Book, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The California Birthday Book Author: Various Release Date: August 27, 2004 [EBook #13298] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CALIFORNIA BIRTHDAY BOOK *** Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE CALIFORNIA BIRTHDAY BOOK Prose and Poetical Selections from the Writings of Living California Authors with a Brief Biographical Sketch of each Edited and Arranged, with an Introduction, by GEORGE WHARTON JAMES Arroyo Guild Press Los Angeles, California 1909 To the dearest and best Literary Partner man ever had: MY WIFE whose critical discernment and fine judgment have materially aided in making the selections for this book. CALIFORNIA—GOD'S COUNTRY. California—land of the brightest dreams of our childhood; of the passionate longings of our youth; of the most splendid triumphs of our manhood. California —land of golden thoughts, of golden hills, of golden mines, and of golden deeds. INTRODUCTORY This book, as its title-page states, is made up of selections from the writings of California authors.