. Book of the Royal blue . as 1,2.)0,000, since theGreater Boston, includingits immediate suburbs withina ten-mile radius, is, after all,the real Boston. The city has one of thefinest park systems of anycommunity on the continent,and it also possesses manymiles of splendid its famous Commonand Public Garden, it possessesFranklin Park, a magnificentl)ieathing space that offers allthe elements of country life;the Fenway, the Marine Parkat City Point, Wood IslandPark in East Boston, and inthe outlying districts such superb areas ofsemi-wilderness as the Blue Hills and Mid-dlese
. Book of the Royal blue . as 1,2.)0,000, since theGreater Boston, includingits immediate suburbs withina ten-mile radius, is, after all,the real Boston. The city has one of thefinest park systems of anycommunity on the continent,and it also possesses manymiles of splendid its famous Commonand Public Garden, it possessesFranklin Park, a magnificentl)ieathing space that offers allthe elements of country life;the Fenway, the Marine Parkat City Point, Wood IslandPark in East Boston, and inthe outlying districts such superb areas ofsemi-wilderness as the Blue Hills and Mid-dlesex Fells reservations. It has its own local bathing beaches andyacht anchorages, and these are supple-mented by such popular and delightfulseashore resorts as Revere and NantasketBeaches; while inland, along the CharlesRiver near Riverside, there are unexcelledopportunities for canoeing and boating. Boston, in short, with its fine summerclimate, its numberless pleasure resorts andits splendid transpovlfition system, both on. 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
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