LIBRARY OFUNIVfMITV CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO The Latchstring REAL THETHE BOLD COASTS OF ATLANTIC -7 The Latchstring TO MAINE WOODS AND WATERS BY WALTER EMERSON With Illustrations AND NEW YORKBOSTON HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1916 C. EMEKSONBY WALTERCOPYRIGHT, 1916, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PublishedMay tqib ofPrefaceBy Way MAINE is a mosaic of in in-bright spots life, laid with more health-worth-while,genuine, than other State ingiving pleasure places any the and framed between the mostUnion, pic- mountain in eastern Americarangeturesque and a in andseacoast, beauty utility, unequaled in in the world.any country That is a sentence and bears some re-long habitual of ansemblance to the exaggeration But it will stand And ifenthusiast. analysis. and awill but come here withyou eyes open, mind for will criticizeimpression, youprepared but not itsits awkward length, perchance, statement. The of in the lastprecarious calling politics intohas taken me timestwenty years many of the and into hundreds ofState,every county common senseits towns. And since the average to callof all the as Mr. Reed used it,people, can to itself at thebe trustedalways express ofPrefaceBy Way I have had time after polls, invariably election, not to consider how it but toonly happened, what I had seen.appreciate who could butThere aremany depict better, fewwho have seenmore. I have written herein, that remains for the andnot for future,history, it should not be far off.