The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-04-19
Maine Magazinists.
Eastern Maine We'll Repre- sented In the
Big MAGAZINES.

On the title pages of the big maya
zines and the covers of good literature,
Eastern Maine has a place of no mean
distinction IS writer's who were born and
otners who live here are regularly pro-
duc!ng material that lands among the
periodicals of national circulation.
Two OF the best known of these are
Peter b. Kyne. whose Cappy Kicks
stories In the Saturday Evening Post are
known all over the nation, and Sewell
Ford, author OF the famous Torchy
stories in Every Week and the Assocat-
ed Sunday magazines. Peter Kyne is
an PASSPORT man, and there acquired
much OF his intimate knowledge of the
sea which figures in his stories. Sewell
ford, although not seen about here
much, was born in South Levant in Pc
nobscot county, and thought enough of
his old home town to come back for it's
centennial exercises a few years ago.
Who's Who says he resides in Clear
water, Florida, just now.
Lincoln Colcord, the Searsport author,
was not born in eastern Maine; in fact,
he tlrst saw the light of day in his faith
er's ship off Cape Horn in 1883. But he
mas lived most of his life in this part of
the Pine Tree State. Today he is recog-
nized as one of the leading poets in
America. His Vision of War is his most
famous work, perhaps.
Arthur Somers Roche, the Castine
author. is leading magazine writer of
the day. More and more editors are
coming to ask. for his work.
Mary Alden Hopkins, former teacher
in Bangor High school, and daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. George H. Hopkins, writes
regularly for Golfers on sociological
questions, the eight-hour day, servant
problems, etc, and has had articles in
Everybody's and Harper's recently.
Henry T. Dowst, Bangor man, now
residing in New York, has long been a
regular contributor of entertaining liter
allure to the magazines. For time he
was lecturer on business English in Bos-
ton university.
Brewers best known writer is Mrs,
Fanny Hardy Eckstorm, author of the
Penobscot Man, virile descriptive
work, giving faithful picture of the
sturdy old native Maine river drivers OF
the Penobscot. Her brother, Walter
M. Hardy, has had fiction accepted by
the Atlantic.
George Savary WATSON, the Kittery
author, now residing in Bangor, has had
many dItICleS Ill l1e DeSL magazines.
Other authors from this section in.
clude Louis Hutton OF Ellsworth, who
had stories in The Smart Set; Charles
Boardman Halves, associate editor of
the Youths Companion, formerly of
Bangor; Sabine w. Wood of Bangor,
author of three successful books and
magazine stories; Henry A. Farnham of
Bangor, now regular contributor to
the Munsey publications; Nathan Apple
ton Ietft, poet whose works have at
tracted considerable laudatory comment.
Gertrude Clergue, Bangor girl. now
residing in London and also contributing
to the English magazines; Grace Hodg-
don Boutelle. now in the west, a well
known writer; Grace Donworth of Ma
chias, contributor to the Ladies' Home
Journal; A. D. McFaul of East Machias,
author of a clever book of down east
characters; Maxwell Alley, son of Presi-
dent Alley of the University of Maine,
author of the transformers; Gertrude
Beane Hamilton of Bangor, contributor
to Munsey's and other magazines; Bart
lett Brooks who has written good poet
ry; Isabel G. Eaton, author of severa
charming books, and numerous Others
whose pardon is asked if their names
are omitted for lack of time to publish
complete list. Bangor Commercial.