Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-09-07

Crown Point road, the early maps OF
the New Hampshire Grants and the
early state and town histories must
be studied. Then too, historical fic-
ton may be consulted, as D. P
Thomson's Green Mountain Boysy a
book which I hope is in every Yer
mont library both public and private
and which today ought to prove as
thrilling to the boys and girls of this
generation as it did to the youth of
! generations past. First published in
] two volumes in 1889, the first edition
was so much read and worn out that
it has now become a rare item and
difficult to procure in a good state of
preservation.
"After securing few historical
| items for your shelves, turn to fic-
ton. Procure the best Of D. P.
Thompson's books, and all Of Row
! land Robinson's stories, for Mr.. Rob
inson has preserved, better than any
] other writer, the Yankee and French
Canadian dialect, at one time heard
frequently in Vermont. A few years
ago some of his books were out of
print, but it is now gratifying to
been so great that Houghton Miff1in
|
+, these earlier volumes. 1t is also
gratifying to note that this same firm
/ have published this last month a
volume of short stories by the late
Mr.. Robinson entitled Silver Fields.
| After Mr.. Robinson's death Mrs.
| Robinson planned to get these sto-
ries ready for the press but was un-
able to do so, and since her death her
daughter has performed this valua-
BILE task. The early novels of Mrs.
Julia C. R. Dorr are out of print and
difficult to procure, and although
somewhat sentimental for these days
are really more healthy than much
of the current fiction. But there is.
fortunately, current fiction of Yer
mont that is healthy and decidedly
worth while.
Cali Vermonters are grateful to
Mrs. Dorothy Garfield Fisher for her
'Hillsboro People, a remarkable col
lection of short stories, the scenes of
which are laid in Vermont. Then too,
some of Mrs. Fishers works like
The Bent Twig,' and The Brimming
Cup the latter one of the most pop
ular novels of today, have partial
Vermont settings. Mrs. Fishers war
stories, Home Fires in France and
The Day of Glory experiences as
observed by Mrs. Fisher while in
j France, have been pronounced by
Professor VIM. Lyon Phelps, the Yale
critic, as the best fiction on the war
produced by an American. Mrs. Fish
er has made an especial study of
methods in education and Gov. Hart
ness did commendable act when he
appointed her a member of the state
board Of education. Miss Sarah Cleg-
horn of Manchester, poet as well as
novelist. is the author of The Turn
pike Lady, and The Spinster.'
Readers of the popular magazines
are doubtless familiar with the short
stories by VIM. Dudley Policy, the
scenes of which are laid in the myth
ical town of Paris. Vermont Mr..
Pelley's first novel. The Greater Clio
rv.' achieved notable success. His
publishers announce a new volume
for publication in the fall.
"Other worthwhile stories are
'Sallie Blue Bonnet story Of the
Catamount Tavery by w. lockwood
Conover; Over Against Green Peak
true story Of happenings in Dor
set, Vermont, by Zephine Humphrey
Fahnestock, Hester of the Grants
Bennington story by Theodore
Peck, The Wood Carver of Lympus,'
by Mary Waller; The Secret Of Old
Thunder Head by Louise Irwin,
good story for young people,, and
many others that might be mention
have the novels of Miss Helen M.
"The complete poetical works Of
Mrs. Dorr, published by Scribner's,
is essential for the Vermont collect
or. Besides many poems read at spe-
cial Vermont celebrations it contains
other poems of real merit, including
some exquisite sonnets. Every col
lector has, I hope, an edition of John
Godfrey SAKE on his shelves. Today
several Vermonters are writing verse
of real merit. The three volumes of
poems by Judge Wendall Phillips
Stafford of St. Johnsbury, Vermont
and Washington. D. c., are doubtless
familiar to many of you. The Trails
by Professor Arthur Wallace Peach
Of Norwich University is a deserving
volume of real poetry. Miss Sylvia
H. Bliss Of East Calais in her vol
ume, Quests, Poems in Prose- has
won success. Daniel Cady in his vol
ume, Rhymes of Vermont Rural
Life has preserved for us interesting
and valuable pictures of the YER
mont of forty years ago. One of the
leading poets of America today is
Robert Frost, who last year bought
a farm in South Salisbury, Yer
mont. Two of the poems in Mr..
Frost's second book of poems, North
of Boston,, have Vermont references.
v, pue .'u!elunoW eqL, eIe essqL
Servant to Servants In this latter
poem the narrator in the poem re-
fers to Lake Willoughby as follows
You take the lake. I look and look
at it.
| see it's fair, pretty sheet of water.
l stand and make myself repeat out |!
loud
The advantage it has, SO long and
narrow,
Like a deep piece of some old running
river
Cut short off at both ends. It lies
five miles
Straight away through the mountain
notch
From the sink window where I wash
the plates
And all our storms come up toward
the house,
Drawing the slow waves whittier and
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