For some years the spirit was kept alive by recurrent commemorations. Mr. Edward E. Bourne (see memoir of him in _N. E. Hist and Geneal. Reg._, 1874, p. 9, and _Me. Hist. Coll._, viii. 386) answered the detractors in an address, “The Character of the Colony founded by George Popham,” Portland, 1864. The statements of Poor and Bourne led to a review by S. F. Haven in the _Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc._, April 26, 1865, and in the _Hist. Mag._ (Dec. 1865, p. 358; March, July, Sept., Nov., 1867; Feb. and May, 1869). There was a dropping fire on both sides for some time. Meanwhile the address in 1865 by James W. Patterson, on _The Responsibilities of the Founders of Republics_, led to a controversy between William F. Poole attacking, and Rev. Edward Ballard and Frederick Kidder defending, the colonists; and their papers were printed together as _The Popham Colony: a Discussion of its Historic Claims_, to which Mr. Poole appended a bibliography of the subject up to 1866. Poole also gave his view of Gorges and the colony in his edition of Johnson’s _Wonder Working Providence_, and in the _North American Review_, Oct. 1868. At the celebration in 1871 Mr. Charles Deane reviewed the erroneous conclusions presented at earlier anniversaries, in a paper on “Early Voyages to New England, and their Influence on Colonization,” which was printed in the _Boston Daily Advertiser_, Sept. 2, 1871. A paper by R. K. Sewall on “Popham’s Town of Fort St. George,” which contains a summary of the arguments and events on the side of its historic importance, is given in the _Me. Hist. Coll._, vii., accompanied by a map of the region. The latest statement of the claim, apart from the review in the Preface to _The Voyage to Sagadahoc_, referred to on an earlier page, is in General Chamberlain’s _Maine_: _her Place in History_, which is too moderate to provoke any criticism. Thus a reaction that at one time claimed the necessity of rewriting history, has in the end engaged few advocates, and is almost lost sight of. =D.= CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH’S PUBLICATIONS.—The _Description_ is now a rare book, worth with the genuine map, should one be offered, fifty pounds or upwards. There is some bibliographical detail regarding it in the _Memorial History of Boston_, i. 50, 52, 53. Latin and German versions of it were included in De Bry, part x. Michael Sparke, the London printer, issuing Higginson’s _New England’s Plantation_ in 1630, appended this recommendation:— “But whosoever desireth to know as much as yet can be discovered, I advise them to buy Captaine John Smith’s booke of the description of New England in folio, and reade from fol. 203 to the end; and there let the reader expect to have full content.”