The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1905-12-28
ABOUT MAINE BOOKS.

The Life of Asa King, by Frank Carlos
Griffith, with illustrations by A. Is.
Shute. The same is laid in Oxford
county and names of places and per-
sons have a familiar sound-Canton
Point, Dixfield, Mexico Corner, Rum
ford Falls, and Asa }. King, Daniel
Webster King, DR.. Locke, Maria King,
Gertrude Doolittle, Jane Higgins and
all the rest-an interesting lot OF genu
Inc country people in a vigorous and
interesting Maine story. The scene
changes from Maine to New York, and
then to Africa, where the hero serves two
wears as U. S. Consul, and then returns
to his native place, where he receives a
grand reception. The book is illustrated
and is attractively bound and printed.
c. M. Clarke Publishing Co., Boston.
OF Mr.. G. Smith Stanton's new book,
Where the Sportsman Loves to Llnger,
the New York Tribune says: Lovers
of the woods and streams, and especial
ly those who delight to explore them in
canoes, will find an entertaining deScrlp-
ton of two of the popular canoe trips. la
Maine-the Alagash and the east and
west branches of the Penobscot-in a
small volume, entitled Where the
Sportsman Loves to Linger, by u.
Smith Stanton, published by the }. 5.
Ogilyie Publishing Company, New
York. The author writes with the en-
thusiasm of a nature lover and goes
sufficiently into the smaller details of
camping, pOrtaging and so forth TO
make the volume serve as guldebook
to those who may be tempted to travel
in his wake, While at the same time
there are hints which will prove useful
to canoeing tyros almost anywhere. OF
course, in Maine one has to hire q
licensed guide whenever going upon
State lands, a wise provision IN spite
of the additional expense 1t entails up
on the yoyager but even so 1t is well to
know something of the way of what to
do and where one wants to go. The
title is almost miSnomer, for while
the sportsman Loves to linger," indeed,
he rarely does so, but is ever pushing
on to explore new scenes and to seek
new adventures, and usually ends his
trip with poignant regrets that the llml-
tationS of his vacation have prevented
him from extending his journeys, or at
least, from lingering longer in the spots
he left behind.
The Tribune also says of Mrs. Dunn's
new volume of essays: In the little
volume of essays entitled Cicero in
Name, Mrs. Martha Baker Dunn dis
cusses pleasantly many questions of
life and literature. She exhibits laud-
able common sense as we'll as sense
of humor She finds matter of interest
in "reminiscences of school life in the
New England of her youth. and she has
much to say that's practical and wise
concerning the reading and the teach
Of ha ic n m MT
in reference to the literary Handbook
which reduces work of the magma
ton to a wooden formula.
OF Mrs. Annie Hamilton Donnell of
kents Hill, author of that remarkable
girls story Rebecca Mary, recently
published by Harper Il Brothers, New
York the New York Suns says: AN
lie Hamilton Donnell, who wrote the
appealing story of Rebecca Mary. has
four children of her own, two boys and
two girls, the youngest being but three
years old. The older children are in
tensely interested in their mothers
stories and are among her most care
full critics. If at any time the outcome
OF story does not entirely please the
author is gently advised to alter it to
their satisfaction. Mrs. Donnell has
moSphere. and for the last dozen years
her home has been in Il literary semi
nary settlement set i'll the midst OF
Maine hills and lakes. Here she has
written her stories with the seminary
bell measuring off three-quarter hours
continually IN her ears. She writes
very rapidly and laughingly says she
hopes vet to be able TO write a story be-
tween bells Most of her work, how
ever, is done at night, when bells and
babies are quiet
The Boston Evening Transcript says
this of Mr.. George SelWyn kimball's
Jay Gould Harmon: ut is full of
vigor and distinctly realistic, while its
description of a lumber drive is of COM
pelling interest and an absolute photo
graph from life. This chapter is in
deed a most remarkable piece OF writ
ing-one fairly hears the rush and the
roar of the waters, the hoalse voices of
the lumbermen, and the grinding of
the myriad logs upon each other in the
steam. In its vigorous, mastery hand
ling of incident and dialogue it is a
splendid success"
A pretty volume of about 300 pages
in II mo. entitled The Logbook of
the Captains Clerk :Adve INJURIES i'll the
China Seas, by Prof. John S. Sewall, ID.
d.. was published last week. 1t is a
Bangor book, by a Bangor author, from
Bangor printing house, and the Ban
gor Commercial gave it special local
mention. 1t says:
The history of the book is interesting.
Soon after graduating from Bowdoin
in the class of 1880, Mr. Sewall was APP
pointed clerk to the commander of the
United States ship Saratoga. then fit
ting out for the Asiatic station, and he
had been i'll eastern waters about two
years when news arrived that Com
.mander Perry was coming out with a
fleet, which the Saratoga was to join.
Then it was that he became member
of the squadron which opened the
doors of Japan to the commerce of
the world 53 years ago. OF that
memorable expedition eight sur
vivors are known to be living.
The volume is dedicated: ''To the
Survivors of the Perry Expedi-
ton to Japan in 1858 i. The several
chapters are as follows: On the Way
Out; The Fate of the Donna Maria:
After Mutimeers in Patchungson: Cruis-
ing for Pirates and What We Caught;
The Sc0urge of the Eastern Seas: