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fifty-four pages, bound in paper, and entitled Specimens. The poet disappeared as quickly as he came, returning to his mountain home in Canyon City, Grant County, of which he was the first County Judge. A year later he emerged once more from his mountain fastness, came to Portland the second time with a roll of manuscript, formidable in size and style of writing. This time he was more ambitious and apparently had an idea that there would be a demand for his verses. Hence he sought advice from the principal bookseller of this embryo city amid the logs and stumps. The locality where we are now assembled was famous then as a hunting ground and abounded in game, such as deer, ducks, geese, swans, grouse and pheasants. The publisher was S. J. McCormick, and he and Miller called upon me. An agreement as to style and price being effected, I finished the volume, setting the type and doing the press work alone. Thus the poet's second little volume, entitled Joaquin, Et ... , was born. Five hundred copies were issued and the selling price was one dollar... the publication was the source of any income to the author 1 am unable to say, but I do know that I was paid for the printing and that satisfied me that the work possessed merit — a poor criterion to judge by perhaps but one apt to be taken into very serious consideration by the printer wh... struggling to establish a successful business. The poet did not get a very cordial re ception at the hands of the newspaper critics of the early days, at least in this part of the country. Hence, in the early seventies h... foun... London, where... I mistake not, his third volume, Song... the Si erras, was issued. This work struck a popular accord and the reviewers gave a kind mention for the most part, and in this way our author came to have a reputation as a true poet from the "Far West." He had to go to the "Far East" — to go to the literary center of the earth before he was discov ered. The utterances of that man who spake as never man spake before, who said nearly two thousand years ago that