Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . atue of William LloydGarrison, the great anti-slavery agitator. The statue is the work ofOlin L. Warner of New York. This is one of the best portraitstatues in the city. On one side of the pedestal is cut Garrisonsdaring declaration : I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I willnot retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. And on the other side: My country is the world; my countrymen are all mankind. Copley Square. We will now turn back to the corner of Dartmouth Street, andkeep on the right side of that stree
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Boston and environs .. . atue of William LloydGarrison, the great anti-slavery agitator. The statue is the work ofOlin L. Warner of New York. This is one of the best portraitstatues in the city. On one side of the pedestal is cut Garrisonsdaring declaration : I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I willnot retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. And on the other side: My country is the world; my countrymen are all mankind. Copley Square. We will now turn back to the corner of Dartmouth Street, andkeep on the right side of that street to Copley Square. On thecorner of Newbury we pass the Boston Art Clubs home, and opposite,on our left, the Victoria Hotel, a brick building with crenelated trim-mings and battlemented top. Here we catch a glimpse of Copley Square, the center of artistic,literary, and educational life in Boston. At our right, on the cornerof Boylston and Dartmouth, is the new Old South Church. Facing thesquare is the chaste and classic front of the new Public Library, with. (169) 170 HANDY GUIDE TO BOSTON. its enormous pedestals at either side of the entrance, waiting forSt. Gaudens groups, and much of the expanse of its pale wallscovered richly with the names of the worlds greatest men. On the south side is the Museum of Fine Arts, with matchlesstreasures of Oriental art, and at the east stands Trinity, with itsbeautiful central tower and its quiet cloisters. On the north side ofthe square are the Second Unitarian Church, Girls Latin School,and two apartment houses. A recent writer, in speaking of thismost attractive part of the town, says: Copley Square, at certain hours of the day, presents the aspectsof a new Latin quarter, so conspicuously does the student elementpredominate in the throngs that cover its pavements. Here thecurrents intermingle and cross, now tending toward the Massa-chusetts Institute of Technology, on Boylston Street ( Tech is theonly name ever given tliis great scientif
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