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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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le accordingly; in Ne\v2)()rt morethan anywhere else with us imitationby the new thin<^ of the old, failure toinsist on ones own idiosyncrasies, and,as Arnold says of ritualistic i^ii^tices, vehement adoption of rites till yester-day unknown, seem to imply that wedo not know a ^ood thing when wesee it. So great, however, is the unifying their withdrawal from the beach, thesummer i)eoj)le are certainly less in evi-dence than tliey were formerly. Tlieymake far less of a spectacle for profanecontemi)lation and somewhat conscious-ly and uneasily, jicrhaps, study exclu-siveness, if not seclusion. They visitamong tliejiisclves and liaveteas and din-ners to themselves, quite as they do intheir several winter social circles. It isl)erfectly clear tliat they do not haveanything like the good time they ortheir fathers and mothers used to have ;but that is their attair, and is onlyinteresting as it aftects and moditiesNewport. They still come (nit (piitestrong—as they are beginning to learn
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An Afternoon Spin. power of Newport that when its sum-mer life appears in any concrete mani-festation one feels that to inquire intoit is eminently to inquire too curiously.It is true that with the extension of thedrive, the decline of the hotel-life and to say—at the Casino ; though the Ca-sino has never paid for itself and is amonument to the unwisdom of its orig-inators efforts to domesticate an essen-tially foreign institution. It endxxliesthe transplanted fancies of the staid 146 NEWPORT burghers of Holland in conjunctionwith the i^reclilections of the lawn-lov-ing Englishman, and includes a restau-rant more or less reminiscent of France.But it has been found to be undulycostly and adjudged to have forcedthe note. Yet it has weekly concertsand dances which at all events the out-er fringe of the society j^eople do nothesitate to attend and i:)articipate in,and it witnesses one festival in the yearto which they contribute their jDresencewith the utmost cordiality—the annualla^^

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