Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-08
Names Place In Literature.

the children OF maine ana New Hamp
shire. Among the notable contribu
tons there is one worthy Of specia
notice. Maine in Literature" by Will
liam l. Cole. The author has nobl,
theme, and the result is satisfying ant
inspiring to those who love Maine ant
take pride in it's record. He shows
that grand as has been the work OF
our State in lines of industrial activity
its greatest work is in the sons it has
reared, and without mentioning the
many sons Of Maine who have won
national fame in craftsmanship. law,
science and business. he gives the list
of those who have won fame in liter
ature, a list which it may safely be
said no state in the Union, with the
possible exception of our mother state
can duplicate.
AS indicating the important place
held by Maine in literature it is point
ed out that upon the facade of the Bos-
ton public library among the honored
names of earth. one reads no less than
four natives of Maine names which
will stand forth to the world among its
great personages as long as granite
endures. In the two noble volumes by
Williamson giving photography Of
| the state is preserved a list of our ma
Al,
tended than has yet been published Of
! any state in the Union. These volumes
| embrace GIL and 744 pages, respectively,
| and form a monument of Maine in lit
| erature more convincing of the great
part which natives Of our State have
| taken in the literary work of the CEN
| fury than can elsewhere be found.
Let us glance for moment at the
| more prominent names among those
who have given Maine its leading place
in American literature. When one
speaks of Maine in literature the name
first called to mind is that of Longfel-
low. the greatest poet of the American
people, and the one most loved abroad
This recalls the famous 1925 class at
Bowdoin college of which he was a
member, and also recalls the names of
John S C. Abbott. Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, Stephen Longfellow, Samuel p.
Bridge, George 3. Cheever, Jonathan
Cilley. Cullen Sawtelle. and David
Shcpley-eminent authors, congressman
and divines, all members of the same
class. the most famous class that any
college in the land ever graduated.
Then among the famous names of the
past in literature we may mention n.
p. Willis and his sister, Fanny Fern"
Elizabeth Cakes Smith, Blanche Willis,
| Howard and Frances L. Mace, both of
Bangor, and Mrs. F. A. Pike of Calais,
the author of Ida May and Caste.
AS writer's of books for young people
what names in literature have won
more love from those for whom they
have written than Jacob Abbott, Elijah
Kellogg. c. A. Stephens. Noah Brooks,
| Willis Boyd Allen, F. H. Costello,
James Otis Kaler, James Otis Re-
becca s. Clark, Sarah r. Clark. the
Sweet and Edward H. Elwell? In ro-
nance aside from the names MENTION
ed do not the names of Kate Douglass
Wiggin, Sarah Orne Jewett, Rebecca S.
Clark, sophie May" Harriet Prescott
| Spofford and Prof. Arlo Bates. recall
some of the most delightful works of
fiction which any modern period of
| American literature has produced"
| They all belong to Maine, and Abbott,
| trained at old Bowdoin.
What profound theologians has not
| Maine given the nation in such men as
Samuel Harris, president of Bowdoin
| and professor in Yale; Roswell d.
Hitchcock, president Of the Union The
| illogical Seminary; Charles Carroll Ev-
| crett, dean OF the harvard divinity
school; Ezra Abbott, the great Bible
scholar and critic: Henry 3. Smyth,
for % years with Union Seminary; Egg
bert c. Smyth and Newman Smyth,
| Cyrus A. Bartol, for more than so
| years connected with the old West
church in Boston, and George Harris.
now president of Amherst college,
| remarkable group of Christian schol-
ars which led the great Friedrich Au-
| gust Tholock. under whom several of
| them studied at Halle, Germany, to
exclaim in surprise. And what is
Maine which produces men like these
"a query which might be made of our
poets, statesmen. nOvelists, essayists
| and writers of chldren's stories. Of
| these theologians, Harris, Everett, the
Smyths and Abbott We're Bowdoin
| graduates.
Maine is the original home of the
genuine humorist. for if anything in
literature has been more natural and
spontaneous than the real humOr of
|