Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . salways first rate. Some of our best actors have beentrained on the Museum boards. But besides having astock company which cannot be surpassed, stars of thefirst theatrical magnitude are often engaged; and brilliantspectacles, with all the accessories of superb scenery, deli-cious music, gorgeous costumes, banners, and other appro-priate appointments, are produced several times in eachseason, in all the magnificence that money and skill canaccomplish, and are a marked feature of the place, thatcannot easily be surpassed. Few persons wh
Sights in Boston and suburbs : or, guide to the stranger . salways first rate. Some of our best actors have beentrained on the Museum boards. But besides having astock company which cannot be surpassed, stars of thefirst theatrical magnitude are often engaged; and brilliantspectacles, with all the accessories of superb scenery, deli-cious music, gorgeous costumes, banners, and other appro-priate appointments, are produced several times in eachseason, in all the magnificence that money and skill canaccomplish, and are a marked feature of the place, thatcannot easily be surpassed. Few persons who visit Bos-ton ever think of quitting it without paying the Museuma visit, for it contains amusement and information for all. The Museum building alone cost nearly a quarter of amillion of dollars, and covers twenty thousand feet ofland, the whole of which, with its numerous cabinets, iscrowded with every variety of birds, quadrupeds, fish,reptiles, insects, shells, minerals, fossils, &c. Then thereis the Feejee Mermaid, alluded to by Barnum, in his. BOSTON MUSEUM. 39 Autobiography, together with more than one thousandcostly paintings, among which is Sullys great picture ofWashington crossing the Delaware, portraits by Copley,West, Stuart, &c. In short there are to be seen nearlyfive hundred thousand articles of every conceivable rareand curious thing of nature and art in the Museum, andall for the marvellously small sum of twenty-five theatre is open every evening, and on Wednesday andSaturday afternoons.
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