New-York tribune., 1905-12-18


The final volume of 'eThe Original Journals of
the Lewis and Clark Expedition is nearly ready
for publication by Dodd Mead & Co. It will
be devoted to fac-simile reproductions of the
original charts and maps made by Lewis and
Clark on the expedition These maps trace ac-
curately for the first time the route of the IA
nous explorers, thus determining the much dis
puted question Of how the expedition crossed the
Rocky Mountains. Many. If not most, of these
maps were lost sight of for great many years
but they have now, SO far as can be determined
by the records, all been located and secured for
this monumental source publication. lust one
hundred years after the arrival of the expIorers
at their camp on River Dubois
one OF the chapters in Oliver Bronson
Capen's Country Homes OF Famous Americans
doubleday. Page & Co.. is devoted to the home
OF whittier and in It the author gives a new
and interesting account of the pains taken bv
Mr. Ordway, Haverhili shoe manufacturer to
secure a photograph Of the old Whittier kitchen
as 1t looked in the poets day. The incident
occurred. Of course. before the birthplace had
been purchased as q memorial to Whittier Mr.
Capen says
sad at that t ams the tenants the unkempt farm
alo @ one aron' room In which the poet was born as
st9TeIo6m ON across the centre OF the kitchen
To photograph the kitchen as it was in Whitter;s
boyhood It was necessary to take back to il the old
MT ordway carted the furniture to the fabose
The armchair that Whttier and his 's father and
ETandfather had used was found in the woodshed
taken from 6 attic The geef tod a1tffS R fa3ie nutoS EfS
Harry V. Radford. the enthusiastic Young
champion Of the Adrondacks has written and
published through the Broadway Publiebins
Company small volume by way of biograph-
ical appreciation Of his prototype. the Rev. w.
e. HI. Murray, more widely known as "Adiro,-
dack Murray" Mr.. Murray had chosen Mr..
Radford to be his biographer. but death inter
vened before the material was sufficiently ample
for the preparation OF a more complete and
serious work than the brief but suggestive
sketch now presented to the public.
catalogue of the English and American chap
books and broadside ballads in the Harvard
College library has just been issued. These
comprise some $500 more different individual
varieties. The catalogue is the joint work of
Charles Welsh and MFR. Tilliughast, tie assistant
librarian. William Coolidge Lane. the librarian
contributes preface in which he thus describes
the methods of the English chapmea:
The chapmen travelled an over the kingdom,
number of these little books GENERALLY Of only
EIGHT twelve Or sxteeIn Id Page1 b besides hurdles of
packs and must have commanded a ready sale
The chapmen thus became the purveyors Of litera-
ture to the common people before libraries. book
stores easy means of Communication. and modern
methods OF publication had made cheap books Of
a better grade accessible. They did their work
ef the prssent day In send out travelling libraries
are beginning TO adapt the chapmen's methods to
their own ends Chapbooks cover a wide range
Of subjects: they preserve record Of many de-
tails of manners and customs superstitioDS and
T'reSndices: they reflect the popular point view
h ways that might otherwise disappear; and they
tra nsT1it fo Ms host Of ronanees songs tests and
anecdotes Ia the form popular at the lime OF their
production.
rueian I. FosdicS is the author of book |
ovbicb the Fleming H. Reyell Company has now |
IN press that aims to throw some new light on |
the makeup of our cosmopolitan population. |
out going back to Colonial times. The book is /
called .,F.rench Blood in America" and In It the