Professor Arthur Wallace Peach of NorAwich University, Northfield, Vt., sends me these additions to the Fermontiana offered recently to a club in St. Johnsbury.

Riered

ERMONT does not yet appreciate the quality of Robinson. I am glad you emphasized him. His books, ten volmes, every one worth while to Vermont readers, are published now by Houghton Mifflin. One volume was issued last year'Silver Fields'-a charming book. Zephine Humphrey of Dorset, Vt., in her books, 'Over Against Green Peak' and 'The Homestead,' has written what I consider to be really the finest Vermont books. I am overenthusiastic, I know, but they are all Vermont. Mrs. Fisher's books touch Vermont only lightly, as you know, although she is turning more and more to Vermont, as in 'Rough-Hewn.' William Dudley Pelley of St. Johnsbury, Vt., is using Vermont as his sources. His novel The Fog' is certainly worth while, as are all his stories laid in Paris, Vt. I know it is the fashion in certain circles to regard him as too much of a popular writer, but I know Vermont and I know he is working sincerely. And then our beloved Julia C. R. Dorr, no longer living except through her books of beauty. Her 'Ode to Vermont' is one of the finest things I know, reflecting the charm and glory of our State. The Tuttle Company is issuing a new volume of her work never before published. 'The Wood Carver of 'Lympus,' by Mary E. Waller, is a novel saturated with Vermont and worthy of study for that reason. Miss Theodora Peck's series of novels should be listed, I think, especially 'Hester of the Grants' and 'White Dawn.' John G. Saxe is perhaps a fading figure, but he belongs to Vermont, and there is still a faint smile in his merry books. There is an interesting array of older books, written in the early periods of Vermont's history, and quite a number of short stories by eminent authors who happened to take some Vermont setting for a story, but all are in volumes a bit difficult to secure. The older books form, however, a fascinating field for research, and I hope to lose myself one of these days in them if for nothing more than some release from these hectic days of ours."

I hope this sends all Vermonters, and any one who likes to read racy, vigorous, and indigenous American humor, straight to "Uncle Lisha's Shop" and the other stories of Rowland Robinson. As for "The Wood Carver of 'Lympus," I should not have forgotten that, for my own R. F. D. man comes over those very hills every day to me in August; that is my section. Professor Peach says he has an extensive collection of Vermontiana and is always willing to discuss it-let the St. Johnsbury club take notice.

THE

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT

OR

A LIST OF BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS

RELATING IN ANY WAY

TO THE STATE.

WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER NOTES.

PREPARED BY

M. D. GILMAN, Montpelier, Vt.

[ WITH ADDITIONS BY OTHER HANDS.]

BURLINGTON:

PRINTED BY THE FREE PRESS ASSOCIATION.

1897.

Huntting

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Libr.- Wead

10-20-1922

gen.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1897,

By CHAUNCEY W. BROWNELL,

Secretary of State, of Vermont, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

INTRODUCTION.

BY H. A. HUSE, STATE LIBRARIAN.

This book is in remembrance of MARCUS D. GILMAN. Made by him as a memorial of others and their work, it now stands by the industry which he wrought in love of his State, by the gift of his children, and by an act of that State which did it as well as him honor, as a worthy and lasting memorial of himself.

How it came to have its being in its present shape is shown by the following letter from his daughter, Mrs. Cushman, and her husband, and the act of the Vermont legislature of 1894, authorizing the publication :

To the Librarian of the Vermont State Library, Montpelier, Vt.:

DEAR SIR:-The "Bibliography of Vermont, or a List of Books and Pamphlets relating in any way to the State, with biographical and other notes; prepared by M. D. Gilman, Montpelier, Vt.," represents much thought and time and labor of its author.

The work was done by him during his years of retirement from active business and in love and loyalty to his native State.

We, his surviving children, as the only heirs of his beloved wife, Mrs. M. M. Gilman, have in our possession and ownership corrected slips of the whole work as published in 1879-80 in the Argus and Patriot, together with the author's additions made from time to time until his decease, January 5, 1889.

Feeling that this work is too important to remain inaccessible to those who are interested in the literary achievements of Vermonters, and furthermore desiring that the work should be preserved as a monument to our esteemed father, we hereby present the entire work to the Vermont State Library, in the assurance that it will be safely guarded there, and in the earnest hope that the State will be disposed, in the near future, to make the work more accessible by printing the same.

Respectfully yours,

HENRY IRVING CUSHMAN,

and

EMILY E. GILMAN CUSHMAN.

Montpelier, Vt., August 14, 1893.

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