“ You almost had That Something within your power, and now you sing it back to sleep with your silly song of pessimism. It's the false philosophy, that such as you sing, which has kept men in the ruts of their own digging for centuries past. ”

“ What other state can boast of charms so varied? No other country has scenery surpassing in grandeur our mountains and forests, or more beautiful than our inland sea with its emerald shores and islands. ”

“ First in early history and narration of personal adventure. Fortunately our most important histories are written by men who have long been residents. Meany, Lyman, Durham, Snowden and Bagley have themselves been a part of the story and have learned much at first-hand. Their pages have a flavor of personal interest which some histories lack.
The adventures of today become the history of tomorrow. Even the most commonplace narration of experience in a new country has its value. ”

“ In some measure it covers the whole Pacific slope. It is intended for school use but will interest any one who likes to study or read history. The story is divided into discovery, exploration, occupation, territorial days and statehood, each treated clearly and fully. The author, professor of history in the University of Washington, is a hero-worshipper and extolls the daring of the adventurer and the patience and courage of the pioneer. ”

“ No. 34 is a history of the pioneer trading posts and early fur companies of the Missouri River and Rocky Mountains and of overland commerce.
No. 35 is the author's best known work. A fifth edition was published in 1905. No man has had a better opportunity to know the Yellowstone than Gen. Chittenden who was in charge of the government work there and no writer more evenly combines the scientific mind of the practical engineer with the charm of a poetic and artistic observer. ”

“ Some people seem to enjoy giving publicity to their disappointments.
Women understand men better than men understand women.
The only personalities who hold permanently the devotion and admiration of humanity are the idealists. ”

“ Golf is an artificial substitute for man's native need for work in the open air.
What we really care for in people is not their social standing nor the fashionableness of their haberdashery, but their kindness, reliability and integrity. ”

“ Bernice E. Newell, a newspaper woman of many years experience, has written exquisite bits of prose and verse. The Mountain, a poem first published in Review of Reviews was later bound constituting the first book published in Tacoma. She was regular contributor to the Northwest Magazine and has been in Sunset, Woman's Home Companion and The Kindergarten.
Bertha Knatvold Mallett has written for Colliers and Century.
I. Newton Greene has done feature and special stories for Harpers Weekly, Success, Life, Technical World, Smart Set, and Pacific Motor Boat. Human interest stories. ”

“ It includes also an attack on the Roosevelt-Pinchot conservation policy which reflects the sentiment somewhat widely held on the Pacific Coast. These features have helped to give the story a wide reading near home but it is a good seller the country over. Very speedily it reached a fourth edition and in its first year sales reached fifty thousand. Mrs. Anderson is the daughter of a Washington pioneer. Those who know her tell us that her home-making and family-raising are as successful as her story-writing. Some one said "She is good for several things and good at them all." ”

“ The first book, which had been used by many classes in parliamentary law, was reprinted in Seattle in 1914. Chinese Fairy Stories has also been reprinted. Miss Fielde has issued more than 200,000 pieces of literature intended for the education of Washington women. The most of them have been distributed without cost. ”

“ A progressive form of mental science put in a new and original style. The writer believes in himself. What is rarer, he is teaching other people to believe in themselves. The book has met with great results. ”

“ When a boy he resolved to write about the Indians of the Columbia and began collecting material by haunting their camps for days at a time. A lady who has lived in the state sixty-four years says "It is the only story that tells accurately of the early life of those Indians."
80. Chaperoning Adrienne; Through the Yellowstone. (1907.) Alice Harriman. This lady has distinguished herself in several ways, first as poetess and contributor to magazines, then as book publisher. Other books she wrote are Stories of Montana, Men Two Counties, besides poems and one juvenile work. ”

“ He has now in preparation an American literature designed for class-room use.
[28] Adele M. Ballard, of Town Crier staff, has won an enviable reputation as art and music critic and is often quoted by Chicago and New York journals. Writes short stories, verses and special articles which have appeared in The Lady, (London) , Collier's and Reedy's Mirror. Her poems, Pierrot and The Concert, are of high order.
Ruth Dunbar, formerly on Seattle Times, has contributions in Woman's Home Companion and Vogue, and is now on the staff of Every Week, New York City. ”

“ Rosalind Larson won an American Magazine prize.
Elizabeth Young Wead has contributed articles to Lippincott's, The Independent, and Country Gentleman. She has just ready for publication a lineage book of the Van Patten family.
Anna Brabham Osborne won a prize in the Club Stories contest. In ten years she has sold sixty-four short stories, seven serials, and nine feature articles. They appear in the Youths' Companion, Overland Magazine, New England Magazine, American Magazine, Christian Endeavor World and the various church publications for young people. ”

“ Jack Bechdolt has had boys' adventure stories in the Youth's Companion, articles in Technical World, Popular Mechanics and Leslie's. From general editor of a Sunday edition and author of feature stories in this state he has recently been called to become feature editor of the Kansas City Star.
Frederick Ritchie Bechdold has had articles in McClure, American Magazine and Harpers Weekly. ”

“ One chapter on the "Ladies Library Association" shows how women laid the foundation of the public library. Another chapter describes the architecture of the metropolis "from log cabin to sky scraper."
37. Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage. (1911.) Carrie Adell Strahorn. A woman's unique experience during [12] thirty years of pathfinding and pioneering from the Missouri River to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. An unusually interesting narration of the days when travel was beset with different if not more dangers than today. The book is put out attractively with 350 illustrations. ”

“ Written after fourteen years continuous residence in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. The writer, a newspaper man, sees things from the impersonal viewpoint of the journalist with a keen appetite for news. ”

“ Cornhill Magazine, Browning Out West and Did Browning Whistle or Sing?; Suwanee Review published The Simple Life as Shakespeare Viewed It; and American Journal of Sociology the Civic Control of Architecture.
145. Hawaiian Idylls of Love and Death. (1908.) Herbert H. Gowen. Eleven myths, beautifully told "In the hope that the sketches may show that touch of nature which makes the whole world kin, which obliterates the distinction between white and black, between East and West, between the man of yesterday and the man of today." Dr. Gowen is a thorough scholar and a literary artist. ”

“ It lauds the energy of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce which conducted a successful lobby in Washington city during the anxious months while the Alaska railway bill hung fire in Congress.
33. Alaska, the Great Country. (1908.) Ella Higginson. This third book is by a lady whom many love to call "our foremost story-teller and sweetest singer." It is most personal, crowded with real adventures, some [11] of them humorous, which the reader shares vividly. Mrs. Higginson says, "No one writer has ever described Alaska. ”

“ One edition contains Bagley's In the Beginning.
[9] 23. The Ox Team; or The Old Oregon Trail. (1906.) The story of a slow and eventful journey by ox team from the Middle West to this territory more than sixty years ago. Mr. Meeker and his oxen have been a conspicuous feature of several western expositions and are a picturesque relic of the fast-fading pioneer life. Today, Ezra Meeker, eighty-four years old, is crossing the continent in a "schoonermobile," a motor car built on the lines of the old-time prairie schooner. ”

“ Washington and Its Swedish Population. (1905.) Ernst Teofil Skarsteadt. The author has been a resident of the state fourteen years. As newspaper man and contributor to Eastern journals he has well covered the life of his fellow-countrymen in this state. He has written on subjects sociological, historical, agricultural and biographical.
30. Our Heroes of the Pen. Mr. Skarsteadt considers this his most valuable work.
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION
Books on Alaska would fill a long shelf. Three are particularly entertaining and rich in description.
31. Alaska, an Empire in the Making. ”

“ She has written several books on Alaska under the nom de plume May Kellogg Sullivan. Her home is near Matanuska in Southwestern Alaska where she has spent seven seasons.
JUVENILE
106. Billy Tomorrow. (1909.) Sarah Pratt Carr.
107. Billy Tomorrow in Camp. (1910.) Same author.
108. Billy Tomorrow Stands the Test. Same author. The scene of each of the series is laid in Washington.
109. Fingers That See. (1914.) Nancy Buskett. Dedicated to her blind friends all over the world. It is the story of a blind girl. One learns to love the child who asks, "Can people who see, see 'round corners?" ”

“ Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest. Catherine Berry Judson. The author is first authority in this [25] romantic field, at least as a collector. This book treats especially of the legends of Washington and Oregon.
150. Myths and Legends of Alaska. (1911.) Same author.
151. Myths and Legends of California and Old Southwest. (1913.) Same author.
152. Myths and Legends of the Great Plains. (1914.) Same author.
153. When Forests Are Ablaze. Same author. ”

“ Her most popular poems are Where the Rhododendrons Grow, and The Rare Old, Fair Old State of Washington, read before the State Press Association.
120. Lyrics of Fir and Foam. Alice Rollit Coe.
121. Quiet Music. (1892.) Charles Eugene Banks.
122. Where Brooks Go Softly. (1896.) Same author. Mr. Banks is more than "the poet." He is a polished writer of essays, and a discriminating critic of the drama and the stage. ”

“ United States History for Schools. (1912.) Shows the development of America as part of world history. This has met with general approval as a text-book.
14. History of Washington, The Rise and Progress of an American State. (1909-1911.) Clinton A. Snowden. Four elegant volumes in half-leather and rich in [8] illustrations. Two later volumes issued as supplements are wholly biographical.
15. The Iron Way. (1907.) Sarah Pratt Carr. The story of the building of the Central Pacific, the first transcontinental railway. ”

“ A collection of prose and poetry some of which had appeared in Northwest Journal of Education, Westerner, Post-Intelligencer, Alaska-Yukon Magazine and Alaska papers.
134. By Order of the Prophet, A Tale of Utah. (1902.) Alfred Hylas Henry.
135. The Danger in the Movement Toward Direct Legislation. Same author.
136. Clean and Strong. Rev. E. A. King.
137. Friendship. Margaret Goodrich.
138. Life's Common Way. Same author. These are collections of well chosen sentiments. The first was re-published a few months ago.
139. George Dana Boardman Pepper. (1914.) A biography. ”