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Title: Ocean to ocean on horseback; being the story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the early history and development of cities and towns along the route; and regions traversed beyond the Mississippi ..
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ight well forget the world of to-day in the fascinationof this drama of the past. Architecturally, Boston combines in the happiestway all that is beautiful and dignified in the classicmodels and all that is fresh and original in moderncanons of building. A magnificent group of buildings,in the vicinity of Boylston and Huntingdon streetsand Copley Square, fairly takes the breath away withits beauty. Trinity Church and the Museum of FineArts, the New Old South Church and the newBoston Public Library, form such a quartet of splen-did edifices as even the travelled eye seldom sees.The Public Library is an embodied Triumph—thesymbol of that great heritage of culture which the citypours out on her denizens as lavishly and as freely aswater, and which, like the gentle dew from heaven,blesseth him that gives and him that takes, return-ing to enrich the community with its diffused presence,like the showers which return to the bosom of the river,the moisture the sun only borrowed for a space.
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BOSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS. 51 Bostonians have always been proud of their PublicLibrary, from its foundation in 1852. By 1885, theBoylston street building, with accommodations for250,000 volumes, was too contracted a space to hold tlielargest public library in the world, and with charac-teristic promptness the city rose to the occasion and era-bodied its thought that ^ nothing can be too good forthe people in the beautiful new library in CopleySquare, which cost the royal sum of $2,<J00,000. The long chapter of description which this splendidenterprise merits must be reluctantly crowded into afew lines. Nothing, however, save personal observa-tion, can give an adequate perception of its outwardloveliness; its exterior of soft cream-gray granite, witha succession of noble arched windows ranged along itsfine fa9ades ; its arches, pillars and floorings of raremarbles, and its mosaics, panels and carvings. The grandstaircase of splendid Sienna marble, opposite the mainentrance, is one of

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