Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-18
ON NEW ENGLAND,s COAST.
Fogs, Books, Art, Reveries and
 (lthers.

moderate distance the ITS ancuOroO. Could not make out much of anything for the fog, which covers the large and many lighted fish factories or canning houses. Windward only to the limited extent of the wharves, so that have little more idea of how Eastport looks than my reader Some of our officers went ashore I did not care to go, for what could see in such fog as thatl When they re- turned they brought newspapers of recent date-dailies from New York, Boston, ton, Portland, coming doubtless by the large "outside steamers" which touch at Eastport, enroute to St. Johns. The news could not be of that day, perhaps not even of the day before Of whatever recent date it would be something new. It is worth remarking what a newspaper-read- ing people we are, even "away down East" These who went ashore found out that the "Mary A." at West Quaddy light, got of all right at high tide. I have grave doubts as to how it would have been had she from any cause been there as de- scribed one day later or longer. I am too tired to read newspapers after looking at so much from Libby Island to St. Croix duu uOWu Go GoSUpoAU 4A1ho Q hoIAOoo man confess it and retire to my state room and go to sleep.
 For fear miss saying it would here say, in sort of waking dream, had you been with me in our saloon, daytime or l evening, you would have seen some nice l strong cases of books, we'll made, the doors of which shut tight with proper hinges and l locks, and good strong handles on the sides; about four feet high, three feet wide, less rather than more, sufficient how | ever to contain a choice little library oi select books, octavos and 12-mos, stand ard works of history science, philosophy ton and perusal at one lighthouse, every three or six months or as desired, fresh case with fresh lot takes the place ot the former one which now comet aboard the Iris and goes or to the next lighthouse and so by this con stant rotation of books, the lighthouse men and their families get fine variet, of good reading from years end to year. end Probably by the time they hat gone through the eastern district iron Portsmouth to St. Croix, ffty-two light houses, they would have been somewha worn-but still useful in some othe distlict or department. I do not knov when their journey begins, nor when i l from childhood, have owned many, hay sold or given away more than I possess and yet have not been what is called
 great reader'-but love books that ar
 books Good solid and wholesom
 thought of master minds.
 So commendable is this governments
 work of supplying this sort of reading t
 the light house men that I desire to em
 phasize it's value and importance. It re
 lieves their lonliness by contact with Vt
 ried and larger minds. However valuabl newspaper and magazine matter may
 in some things fe sl certain those who d.
 pend on periodical literature for ment,
 ailment and stimulus will never go to th f root of things nor climb into their top , To be not superficial, but really dee
 thinking men must be students and lear f science, philosophy and statesmanship 6 . near the fountain heads of knowledge 6 3 may be. Some books are not bor to die. They are immortal. R 8 cording mans observations of the gre, . facts of nature, of history, of science, = art, of poetry, of song. They are like thu
 Maine coast went to see and am trying
 tell about. They are enduring in the
 places, and not like the shifting sand
 chased and rolled about in every way,
 every tide and every storm, covered ov,
 with new sand and more seaweed, an
 then more sand and more seaweed. Sue = are the evanescent forms of thought
 pleasing for brief while-always lister
 ing for the wind and the waves, alwa,
 expecting and awaiting the next chang
 When you get tired of it all perchance yc
 will have something solid, as do.
 Probably my reader WI excuse me f,
 saying was trained for a profession al
 followed it until broken down. But fro
 childhood was very fond of pictures al for very many years have studied | oth a | and nature, and painted in oil or wat colors That look at nature much artists do is very likely. Habits of clo
 observation and attention have been i r creased and intensified by such study al , practice,
 There is limited vanity in nature.
 expands the mind to read what others fiji
 and see, also to go and see for ourselve and not shut ourselves up at home; n
 even with books, nor yet with men. IT
 more the mind expands the more it c, . enjoy. There are two great books giv' y us by our maker; The world t nature and the world of revelation :. The one supplements the othe |, I enjoy both all the more, as who shor o not, for the light one sheds on the othe oo And I hold that to be true science, art h song that depicts nature as nature is. A
 ter we have got hold of the facts of thin N as they are we may make good use of the Il if we know how. The fact of there beir
 8 Maine coast such as it is and such as . had heard of and found it to be goes bat l. to beginning whose making was not
 itself. But to think it is there just make pictures of is very little thoug ,- indeed. Yet it is part of large hon
 made wonderful and beautiful for man. @ # o,,11y o 5 of pictures, it ought to be pleasure end
 memory to you.
 ). Knowing from fine foreign imports Il paintings that we have nothing like tho
 scenes on our Atlantic seaboard, nothil 6 very like what Edgar Wakeman has ,. charmingly been writing, about coa
 scenes in Spain, or France, or Ireland, ). England-no cliffs so vast, so wild; not ing like Richards canvass of the "Corni 7 Coast; nothing like the Norway coas [. about which have read and seen pain f ings. Nevertheless, maintain that "T } Maine Coast' is highly picturesque al a worthy of an artists careful searchin z No one, to my mind, has grasped it's sa r. ent points and strong features better tn, e Dr. Haas in 8 brilliant sunset glow, repr
 duced by Prang & Go. of New York al
 Boston, noted. art publishers, as idealiz
 by that artist, in good-sized but very e
 cellent chromo. A companion piece thel
 to is 8 lifeboat scene in more sober colo1
 on some other coast, by some other arti,
 The pair at $25.00, worth hanging in al
 gentleman's home, at least anyone, wi = does not wish to go into the hundreds
 thousands of dollars for the origir
 painting by such artists. And I do D of like "Mr. Chromo's paintings" in gener Q. whatever the uninitiated may think C. them. Some westerner, I read of, h. T, heard great deal about "Mr. Chrome e. paintirgs'' That is just about as much le some of the sudden wealth people knc csncerning art, but with Prang's skill workmen in "Mr. Chromo's" confden
 and workshop, the work turned out worth buying. Why not say its
 One of the most charming pictures s'
 on this trip was on the second day, viz:
 vast flock of sea gulls just ahead of t
 Iris, filling the air with their numbers;a
 covering the water very much as tn
 hovered just above or plunged in to sic
 their food q suppose large schools of h.
 l ring or young mackereD They Wou