Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . on after this 150 shares at $300 were sold,thus adding what an old writer on the subjecthas termed a large number of respectablenames to the corporation. Shares todaybring about $400, and are eagerly sought bygood Bostonians. For some time after its inception the Athenaeumwas the only library of importance accessiblein any way to the public. The older BostonLibrary, a proprietary institution, which for-merly had its quarters in Franklin Street overthe arch [hence Arch Street], — moving later to
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . on after this 150 shares at $300 were sold,thus adding what an old writer on the subjecthas termed a large number of respectablenames to the corporation. Shares todaybring about $400, and are eagerly sought bygood Bostonians. For some time after its inception the Athenaeumwas the only library of importance accessiblein any way to the public. The older BostonLibrary, a proprietary institution, which for-merly had its quarters in Franklin Street overthe arch [hence Arch Street], — moving later toBoylston Place, — was neither so general nor soextensive as the younger institution, and thePublic Library was not established for manyyears, and then only after a plan for making theAthenaeum public had failed. But the Anthol-ogy Clubs institution was much more than alibrary. Like the original Athenaeum in Rome,its purpose was the promotion of literary andscientific studies, and anything tending towardsthese ends found encouragement there. Itsart exhibitions used to bring in a yearly income.
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