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~AfU ~y 25, 1930. 1'Rlll outstat'ldlmi,,aaa,; · els or the new year 111 wo.rk of an author who bae his )lertnanent summer home ~aln-Kenneth L. Roberts ot Kennebunk Beach. Arundelt a glamourous historical nol'el, based on the American , march on Quebec, led by Benedict 1 Arnold , and dwelJlng partlcularlv on ] tlu1· portion •hfr-h kd t h '! ,1:tunuc~!I
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extent in this State and dea.Ja w1tb _.i\ 1a!ne people. At the time the ibook comeil from the press Mr. Roberts ls In Italy. The march of Arnold to Quebec intriguing to the 1haa always proved those for whom romanticist and to 1 th<> dar! 1 the heroic, the gallant anjng hold a fascina tion. Mr. Roberts h a s missed nothing of thi8 fascination. The book Is glamourous, romantic and thr11llng. It also has a ,strong flavor of Colonial Maine for It ts concerned with frontier llfo at Arundel, now Kennebunkport.
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In the Portland Sunday Telegram Robert B. Beith writes of the book: "Robert,s Is well qualified to write such a tale as this. A lover o! Maine and hi:1· out-door.s, his trips fishing excursions, hunting and pleasure jaunts thru the State have familladzed him with' the country thru which Arnold's brave army passed. He Is a lover of nature and his book Is evidence of the extent of his knowledge of n ture lore. "In addition, he has read widely, saturating himself with historical tacts. In this research he was aided oy General Dawes and other friends. , The result is that his book ls vivid• ly colored with the atmosphere of the Revolutionary period. But for pa.ges, Kenneth Roberts, the author, tnapped while fishing at Kennebunk the whiteness ot Its and thethe newspelling ness of its binding Beaoh wher@ he makes hia homo. of its words, one could of some believe that It was some old - - - - - -- - -- - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - -- - - - - - , readilywritten by Steven Nason himstory, self and handed down th1·u his ram-
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Arundel," Tale of Revolutionary Days, Laid in boeality of Mr. Roberts' Summer Home, One of the Best American Novels of Recent Years
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" 'Aru.pdel' Is one of the beat -'-merican novels of recent years. That statement needs no qualltlcatlon. It Js brllUant. It le American thruout. It la auth•lltlC, reeOl'dlng events that he1-etofore have been curiously neglected. "The story is told by Steve Nll-l6n of Arundel, whose father, Steve n Nason, Sr., was the pro Inn and a friend to th Abenakl Indians ot Maine. "l'he atory lteelf is simple. When young Steve la. a boy, a Frenchman, Guerlac, visits his father's Inn, angers those
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