The Republican journal., 1922-04-20
BOOKS BY MAINE AUTHORS

The Maine State Library at Augusta
has begun to make collecti of books
by Maine authors, which is to be housed
in a special room in the new library. The
purpose of this interesting enterprise is to
gather together all books, manuscripts
| and autographed letters by writers who
were either born in Maine, or who, as
residents, have made life in Maine the
background of their work, in order that
future research workers, scholars and his
torians may find in one place Names con-
tribution to literature.
And that contribution is considera BILE.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, though
intimately associated with Cambridge,
was born and educated in Maine, and un-
til his appointment as professor at Har-
ward, in 1885, had been for five years pro-
fessor of modern languages and literature
at Bowdoin College. Among present day
/ poets Maine is eminently represented by
Edwin Arlington Robinson, whose birth
place is picturesquely called Head Tide. T"
Though now resident of Boston, Holman
F. Day, writer of both verse and prose
with Maine settings, is native of that
state, where he also has had nota BILE
newspaper career. Hugh Pendexter is
another former member of the newspa per
profession, who has made success in fic-
ton. He. was born at Pittsfeld, Me. In
present day journalism few men have an
influence equal to that of Frank A. Mum
sey, proprietor of the New York Herald,
not to mention other newspapers and
numerous periodicals In his early years
he wrote several books: "Afloat in
Great City," 1.-The Boy Broker" "A
Tragedy of Errors," Under Fire." etc.
They are now in the Maine collection, for
their author was born at Mercer, Me- The
Familiar Essays" etc., which Arthur g.
Staples, the distinguished editor of the
Lewiston journal, has fortunately found
time 20 write, are also there.
Though born in Philadelphia, Kate
Douglas Wiggin has not only made her
home at Hollis, Me-, but has put so much
of that state into her books that she may
properly be classed as Maine author.
The late Sarah Orne Jewett was another
chronicler of life 10 Maine whose works
will be remembered. Among modern
writers of fiction, particularly that of ad
venture in strange lands, we find Henry
Miner Rideout, a native of Calais, and
Richard Matthews Hallet, who was born
at Bath, and now regards Boothbay Har-
Dor as his residence. At one time Mr..
Rideout was colleague at Harvard OF
Prof Charles Townsend Copeland, who
also proudly CLAIMS Maine as his native
state, having likewise been born at Calais
and the two are co-authors of several
volumes on English literature. Prof.
rone,ano - moreover, the biographer of
Edwin BOOTH
A complsias a.: ...st of Maine authors would
cover nearly all fields of learning. The
architects of that new library should take
care not to make "The Maine Room 700
SMALL The late Rev. Timothy Otis Paine
of Elmwood. Mass author of a large and
scholarly volume on Solomon's Temple,
called "The Holy Houses" was native
of Winslow, Me-, and memories OF his
boyhood home are recorded in many OF MS
poems, a few of which were collected and
published after his death. His niece, Sell
ma Ware Paine of Bangor, Me-, was the
author of Fugitive Verses" and literary
essays, particularly on Dante. Her Sis
ter. Mrs. Lydia Augusta Carter OF New
tonville, Mass, has recently compiled and
published under the title of 1.-The Dlscov-
cry of Grandmother" the diary OF Abel
Ware Paine of Winslow and many other
family records, copy of which is now IN
"The Maine Collection"
| AS writers on American bird life FANNIE
Pearson Hardy, native of Brewer, and
! the late Olive Thorne Miller of Auburn
are widely known. Among the names OF
/ other writers whose works properly be-
long in this collection are those of William
Grant Brooks, Henry johnson, Lewis X.
White, Eden Small, Arthur Grlfhths,
Charles R. Davis, Frances L. Mace and
Martha Baker Dunn. And the list does
not end there. The collection has but
just been started and new contributions
are arriving almost daily from near and
| far.-Boston Herald.