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article on the matter of the protection of the Big Trees left, it would be a most readable feature of the Review of Reviews,
and at the sane time night stir up considerable interest in the matter of protecting these magnificent giants.What the present
condition of the trees is, wliat dangers they ere subject to, what legislation there is on the subject, what there ought to
be, and what chance there is of getting it, then, would make up perhaps the larger part of the article we have in mind We
do not know that you would care to undertake such a piece of work, but we hope that you will, and we think it the more probable
that you might, because the circulation of the Review of Reviews is such as to give tiny reeommendations you may have to make
in regard to the preservation of the sequoya groves the widest and best introduction. We should be glad to have thisTHE
AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW REVIEW She REVIEW of REVIEWS CO. AugUSt 19, 1901 13 Astor Place, New York Mr. John Muir,
c/o Atlantic Monthly, Boston, Mass. Dear Sir: Your exceedingly charming article on the Big Trees, which I have been reading
in the advance sheets of the Atlantic, has led me to wonder if you would not be willing to write a brief article for the Review
of Reviews on the sequoyas, an article built on somewhat different lines, just as the Review of Reviews is rather a journalistic
magazine, while the Atlentic Monthly is rather a literary magazine. Our thought had been that if you could give some of
the dramatic facts of the size, age, beauty and life history of the Big Tree, the limits of its range, etc., and then proceed
to make rather the larger part of the 02884