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Fictional Rambles in and about Boston

Frances Prince, 1902. Boston as its novelists placed it, held because the names fiction used are evidence of the names people used.

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book

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Frances Prince

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New York, McClure, Phillips and company

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1902

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en

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nut tttfonal a .it ili>i II Hi i! t ffi ifcJT' HffiTHl&n t0ton Car Uam Class _E13l Book JJ Copyrights "J3^ COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT. FICTIONAL RAMBLES IN AND ABOUT BOSTON FICTIONAL RAMBLES in & about By jfranccs Weston Carrutf) ft Author of "Those Dale Girls" "The Way of Belinda" etc. ALDI NEW YORK ft£c£Iurc, tftyiHiptf an& Companp MCMII RY OF NOV. 10 1902 CLASS (X' XXc. No. B. 2 Copyright, 1902, by McClure, Phillips & Company Published October, 1902, N Co ttjosc 15o0tontan0 $0y &unt0 Cl)r0f Hamblrs in S^fir City 2it affectionately ^IngrribfD CONTENTS PART I. IN MODERN BOSTON P4rv 1 AGE i Beacon Hill and Street . . 3 11 The West End 21 in The Charles Street Neigh- bourhood 49 iv In and About the Common . . 61 v A Ramble Round the Public Garden 88 vi The Back Bay 109 vii The South End 144 PART II. IN OLD BOSTON 1 About the Wharves . . . .157 11 The Heart of the Old North End 176 in In and Around Dock Square . 204 ix CONTENTS iv State Street and the King's page Chapel Neighbourhood . . 220 v When Commercial Boston Was Residential 245 vi In Tremont Street and Music Hali 267 PART III. ABOUT BOSTON 1 Cambridge and Lexington . . 283 11 Harvard 3T3 in Westward 339 iv Toward the Blue Hills . . 346 v Nahant and Nantasket . . . 365 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Longfellow's Grave Frontispiece The gilded dome of the State House 5 The Old Beacon 8 The Athenreum ir An Ancestral Home in Mrs. Moulton's "Miss Eyre'" ... 13 Tablet marking site of Hancock House 15 The home of Mildred Wentworth 17 The semi-circular windows of the Somerset Club. — -Crawfords ''American Politician " 19 Beacon Steps. — Howetts's "A Woman 's Reason" .... 23 Mount Vernon Place 27 41 Mount Vernon Street— the home of Mrs. Harrison Gray Otis 28 48 Mount Vernon Street — the home of the Coreys .... 29 The perfect Gothic arch formed by the trees that line both sides of Mount Vernon Street. — Helen Reed's "J/tss Theodora " 31 No. 59 Mount Vernon Street 35 A row of old houses in Mount Vernon Street 39 82 Mount Vernon Street — the home of the Randolphs ... 41 Home of Rose Jenness in "Two Bites at a Cherry" ... 42 I.ouisburg Square — former homes of Louisa Alcott and Mr. Howells 43 73 Pinckney Street — the home of the Lacys ...... 46 African Methodist Church, 68 Charles Street ... . . 50 The Church of the Advent and Clergy House, Brimmer Street. 51 Charles Street 54 xi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Telescope in the Mall 63 Ticknor Mansion. Union Club. Park Street Church. Mall 65 The Common ... 69 The Long Path 73 The Pond in the Hollow 77 Cows on the Common Si The Liberty Tree 85 The Public Garden 91 The Statue of Washington, near Commonwealth Avenue . . 96 Venus Fountain in the Public Garden 97 The Swan Boats 99 The Arlington Street Church from under the Kilmarnock wil- low by the pond in the Public Garden 103 \n Apothecary's Window, Mentioned in James's "Bostonians" 105 The Home of Mrs. Mesh in Arlington Street 107 Home of Mrs. Adams ("Truth Dexter") in Beacon Street . . 10S The Harvard Bridge — part of the Back Bay Ill 296 Beacon Street (The Oval Doorway), the home of " The Autocrat." 302, the home of Mr. How

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