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Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aine, and the various other refuges from the life of the average summerwatering-place. Perhaps the reason is to be found in the argument that it istoo near Boston, which is a polite way of expressing reluctance to invade the sa-cred precincts of the most critical society in America for fear of not pleasing. Ifsuch be the case, this attitude of caution acts as a two-edged sword, for if there isany plea to be urged against the attractiveness of the North Shore it is that tliesociety is so exclusively Bostonese. The families from a distance are almost tobe numbered on the fingers of one hand, and you meet in your walks and drivesand social intercourse the self-same people with whom 3ou have dined andslummed, or whom you have seen at the Symphony Concerts all winter. If itis meet that man should not live alone, it is almost equally desirable that heshould for a month or two in every year lose sight of all his family, except- Copyright, 1S94, by Charles Scribners Sons. All rights reserved.
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Tne Beverly Snore. ing his very nearest and clearest, andhis entire customary social acquaint-ance. But this is a privilege whichonly those who are not tied by businessexigencies to the apron-strings of theirnative city are able to enjoy with anydegree of regularity. JBy the North Shore is meant thenorthern coast of Massachusetts Bay,from Nahant and Swampscott on thesouthwest to Gloucester and Cajoe Annon the northeast. Cape Ann is theend of everything excej^t the AtlanticOcean, and civilization proj^erly ceasesbefore you come to Gloucester, the fa-mous fishing-town of this portion of theworld, which Hes thirty-one miles fromBoston in a tolerably direct line by railAlong the borders of this rocky coast,which abounds in mai-veDous curves andindentations, including several fine har-bors, stands a succession of villas, ofvarious t^pes of architecture, and forthe most part at sufficient intervalsfrom one another to insure privacy, fora distance of fifteen miles. Swampscott,Phillips Beach,

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