. The street railway review . tion the first thing that meetsthe eye is Thoreau street. Instantly one feels in the atmosphereof classic association. The beautiful town library, its interiorlined with the busts of Concord authors—Emerson, Haw-thorne, Thoreau, and the Alcotts—with others of fame, is a grate-ful expression of the enthusiastic devotion with which the vil-lage cherishes Its great and its good. A little walli past an oldgraveyard, whose moss-grown stones bear dates of two cen-turies ago. brings one to the public square wherein the soldiersmonument stands, and from which two roads br
. The street railway review . tion the first thing that meetsthe eye is Thoreau street. Instantly one feels in the atmosphereof classic association. The beautiful town library, its interiorlined with the busts of Concord authors—Emerson, Haw-thorne, Thoreau, and the Alcotts—with others of fame, is a grate-ful expression of the enthusiastic devotion with which the vil-lage cherishes Its great and its good. A little walli past an oldgraveyard, whose moss-grown stones bear dates of two cen-turies ago. brings one to the public square wherein the soldiersmonument stands, and from which two roads branch, one onwhich stands the home of Emerson, and still farther on the•Orchard House, and The Wayside, and another from whichone approaches Sleepy Hollow cemetery. It is here tliat onenialies his pilgrimage. Here is the spot that is as much aclassic in the worlds history as the famous region of the lakepoets in England, or the heath where the witches appeared toMacbeth, or the spot in Florence whereon stood the house in. LOWELL S STUDY. which Dante lived. For the name of Emerson is second luno other in the entire history of the world, and his grave willbe forever a shrine of sacred pilgrimage. In the calm beauty of a golden summer afternoon, climb thesloping heights of Sleepy Hollow. Approached from the mainthoroughfare (on the south) the roads and paths wind upwardover varied slopes. Emersons grave on the crest of the highest hill in Sleepy Hol-low cemetery, is only twenty minutes walk from the station. If one chooses he may drive; but in that he misses the pleasure of sauntering through the town, with its wealth of hisloric asso-ciations. One may like to walk leisurely past the liouse wliere forsome years Mr. Alcott lived with the family of his married dangii-Icr, Mrs. Pratt. The home of .Tudge Hoar and tlie old graveyardare on the main street of the village. The home of the well-known author, lecturer and political economist, F. H. Sanborn, isat the west end of the tow
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