MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY WANTS. The Maine Historical Society wants for its library : A copy of every book and pamphlet printed in the state. A copy of every book and pamphlet containing matter relating to the state and its inhabitants. A copy of every book and pamphlet written by a native of the state. Bound volumes of Maine newspapers. Maine town and city directories. Maine church manuals. Family genealogies. Benton's Debates. Vol. V. 1857 edition. S. Waldo's Defense of Leverett's Title to the Muscongus Lands. Boston, 1736. American State Papers. Vol. I. Henry Lee's Memoirs of the War. Phila., 1812. Vol. II. Maine County Atlases. Published in Philadelphia. Hamilton's History of the Republic of the United States. Vols. II and VII. Life of Abel Sampson. Portland, 1860. Democratic Review. Vols. 8, 22, 32. New Hampshire Historical Society Collections. Vols. IV and VI. United States Fish Commission Reports. 1871, 72. Perley's Report on the Fisheries of New Brunswick. 1852. William Jones' Second Free Gift. Memoir of Henry Tufts. Life of Elder Benjamin Randall. Book for the Children of Maine, with map. Weston's Bowdoin Poets. Catalogue of original documents in the English archives relating to Maine. The Three Elders of Maine. By Osgood Bradbury. The Female Christian. Writings of Lucy Barnes. Royal Society of London. Transactions. Vols. I to VI, inclu. Rhode Island Colonial Records. Vol. I. Lithographed plates accompanying Jackson's Geology Reports of Maine. Histories of Cumberland, Kennebec and Penobscot Counties. Quarto. Portraits of natives of Maine; also portraits and busts of those prominently identified with the history of the state. Autograph letters, documents and MSS. The Western Antiquary of Plymouth, England. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4. Maine Agricultural Reports. 1850–57. Maine Public Laws. 1832, 33, 35, 36. WILLIAM MITCHELL SARGENT, A.M. BY DR. CHARLES EDWARD BANKS. Read before the Maine Historical Society, December 10, 1891. or grand in life. SENTIMENT underlies everything that is noble, true Without it there would be no love, no heroism, no compassion, no charity. It sustains man in the gloom of the dungeon; nerves him for the martyrdom of the stake and steels his heart in the battle's roar. It is the mainspring of friendship, the excuse for patriotism. Its beautiful promptings impel us, when one of our number has finished his lifework, to pause in our path and rehearse his virtues, forgetting, if there be, his faults. Inspired by this sentiment, which is universal, we come together to-day from our several spheres of activity to afford an opportunity to his former associates in this Society to testify their appreciation of the life and work of William Mitchell Sargent. Death to the old, or to those whom Providence has afflicted with bodily infirmities, seems a part of the processes of nature, whose effect upon us has long since been discounted by expectation; but when it comes to those who are, as the poet says In the morn and liquid dew of youth, or in the meridian of a splendid manhood, and at the very acme of their possibilities, it is difficult for frail humanity in the first hours of grief to say: "The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be VOL. III. 9 |