. Book of the Royal blue . THE STATE HOUSE. BOSTON, MASS. BOSTON AND OLD-HOME WEEK. land and on water, has no peer as a vaca-tion center. Aside from its historic structures, mostof them as well known as IndependenceHall in Philadelphia, and some of themeven better known, Boston has many finemodern public buildings that are the de-light of visitors. No capital has amore beautiful or interesting State House,with its superb Memorial Hall and itstattered battle flags. The artistic and costly Public Library, is spending a couple of weeks in the Hubshould undertake to even cursorily inspectall
. Book of the Royal blue . THE STATE HOUSE. BOSTON, MASS. BOSTON AND OLD-HOME WEEK. land and on water, has no peer as a vaca-tion center. Aside from its historic structures, mostof them as well known as IndependenceHall in Philadelphia, and some of themeven better known, Boston has many finemodern public buildings that are the de-light of visitors. No capital has amore beautiful or interesting State House,with its superb Memorial Hall and itstattered battle flags. The artistic and costly Public Library, is spending a couple of weeks in the Hubshould undertake to even cursorily inspectall of its public and semi-public buildings,its colleges, schools, charitable and philan-thropic institutions, theatres, statues, lead-ing churches and office buildings he wouldhave no time for anything else. In the central part of the city, the Pub-lic Garden, with its glories of bloom andshrubbery and its graceful swan-boats, andthe historic Common, with its leafy malls,its statues and its famous frog pond, are the. with its priceless paintings by Abbey,Sargent and other noted artists, is the chiefarchitectural and literary treasure of thecity, while Trinity Church, which standsnear it in Copley Square, is one of thefinest specimens of ecclesiastical architec-ture in the country. The Museum of Fine Arts, the IsabellaStuart Gardner Museum, Symphony Hall,the magnificent group of the HarvardMedical School, are among the other struc-tures and institutions that everybody whocomes to Boston wants to see. If one who focal points for the casual tourists doingthe town. Few shopping thoroughfaresare more interesting than those whichsurround the Common and Public Garden,Tremont and Boylston Streets, both of themhaving undergone radical changes duringthe last twenty or twenty-five years. It is a truism that there is no city in the■ United States where so many objects andplaces of interest may be seen as in andabout Boston, the Cradle of Liberty. The Old State House, succeeding theoriginal
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