{"product_id":"2940014155762","title":"The Portland Sketch Book","description":"Includes: Diamond Cove\u003cbr\u003eOur Own Country-James Brooks\u003cbr\u003eThe Cruise of the Dart-S.B. Beckett\u003cbr\u003eTo M***, on Her Birth-Day-William Cutter\u003cbr\u003eReligious Obligation in Rulers-John W. Chickering\u003cbr\u003eA New-England Winter-Scene-William Cutter\u003cbr\u003eLoch Katrine-N.H. Carter\u003cbr\u003eWorship-Asa Cummings\u003cbr\u003eThe Valley of Silence-William Cutter\u003cbr\u003eDescriptions of the Divine Being-Gershom F. Cox\u003cbr\u003eThe French Revolution-Charles S. Daveis\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Sykes-Nathaniel Deering\u003cbr\u003eOld and Young-James Furbish\u003cbr\u003eAutumnal Days-P. H. Greenleaf\u003cbr\u003eThe Plague-Charles P. Ilsley\u003cbr\u003e“Oh, This Is Not My Home!”-Charles P. Ilsley\u003cbr\u003eThe Village Prize-Joseph Ingraham\u003cbr\u003eIndifference to Study-George W. Light\u003cbr\u003eThe Village of Auteuil-Henry W. Longfellow\u003cbr\u003eThe Past \u0026amp; the New Year-Prentiss Mellen\u003cbr\u003eThe Ruin of a Night. -Grenville Mellen\u003cbr\u003eCourtship-Wm. L. Mcclintock\u003cbr\u003eVenetian Moonlight-Frederick Mellen\u003cbr\u003eBallooning-I. Mclellan, Jr\u003cbr\u003eOde, on Occasion of Judge Story’s-Grenville Mellen\u003cbr\u003eHe Boy’s Mountain Song-I. McClellan, Jr\u003cbr\u003eThe Unchangeable Jew-John Neal\u003cbr\u003eA War-Song of the Revolution-John Neal\u003cbr\u003eMusings on Music-James F. Otis\u003cbr\u003eSin Estimated by the Light of Heaven-Edward Payson\u003cbr\u003eThe Way of the Soul-L. S. P\u003cbr\u003eFragments of an Address on Music-Edward Payson\u003cbr\u003eThe Blush-Mrs. Elizabeth Smith\u003cbr\u003eThe Widowed Bride-Mrs. Ann S. Stephens\u003cbr\u003eJack Downing’s Visit to Portland-Seba Smith\u003cbr\u003ePortland as it Was-William Willis\u003cbr\u003eThe Cherokee’s Threat-N. P. Willis\u003cbr\u003eGrecian and Roman Eloquence-Ashur Ware\u003cbr\u003eReligion-Jason Whitman\u003cbr\u003eThe Deserted Wife-Mrs. Ann S. Stephens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe object of the Portland Sketch-Book, is to collect in a small compass, literary specimens from such authors as have a just claim to be styled Portland writers. The list might have been extended to a much greater length, had all been included who have made our city a place of transient residence; but no writer has a place in this volume who is not, or has not been, a citizen of Portland, either by birth or a long residence. Therefore, all the names contained in these pages are emphatically those of Portland authors. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsidering the population of our city--hardly fifteen thousand at this time--the list itself we apprehend will be considered as not the least remarkable part of the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was the design of the Publishers to furnish a book composed of original articles from all our living authors, and to select only from those who have been lost to us; but though great exertions were made, the editor found much difficulty in collecting original materials, even after they had been promised by almost every individual to whom she applied. According to the original design, each living author was to have contributed a limited number of pages; but after frequent disappointments, all restrictions were taken off; each writer furnished as many original pages as suited his pleasure, and the deficiency was supplied by selected articles. In her selections, the editor has endeavored to do impartial justice to our authors, and, in almost every instance, she has been guided by them in her choice. If in any case she has been obliged to exercise her own judgment, in contradiction to theirs, it was because the publishers had restricted her to a certain number of pages, and the articles proposed would have swelled the volume beyond the prescribed limits. Original papers are inserted exactly as they were supplied by their separate authors. A general invitation was extended; therefore it should give no offence, if those who have contributed largely fill the greater portion of the Book, to the exclusion of much excellent matter, which might have been selected. Several writers who did not forward their contributions as expected, have been omitted altogether, as the editor could find nothing of theirs extant which was adapted to a work strictly literary.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn order to avoid all appearance of partiality, it has been thought advisable to make an alphabetical arrangement of names, and to let chance decide the position of each author in the Book.","brand":"Denise Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175962493168,"sku":"2940014155762","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014155762_p0.jpg?v=1763601809","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014155762","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}