. The street railway review . nimbly skips down the stone steps back of Horticultural Hall, Into another truly Bostonian passageway,crosses Bromfield street, hies him into Bromfield court—an Italiansettlement dropped into the hear^ of Boston—makes a thorough-fare of a business house opening on !>oth streets, and arrives athis destination in a hop, skip ai d jump fashion that is highlyedifying. It is a picturesque mysttiy dear to tlie Bostonian heart,and on no consideration would he exchange it for prosaic rect-angles. Boston, like Paris, has her Quartier Latin, where the mostinteresting thi
. The street railway review . nimbly skips down the stone steps back of Horticultural Hall, Into another truly Bostonian passageway,crosses Bromfield street, hies him into Bromfield court—an Italiansettlement dropped into the hear^ of Boston—makes a thorough-fare of a business house opening on !>oth streets, and arrives athis destination in a hop, skip ai d jump fashion that is highlyedifying. It is a picturesque mysttiy dear to tlie Bostonian heart,and on no consideration would he exchange it for prosaic rect-angles. Boston, like Paris, has her Quartier Latin, where the mostinteresting things happen. There is a semi-Bohemian region inwhich are located several studio buildings and other artistic orsemi-literary headquarters, which is a part of the city that isvery much alive. On the new land, the buildings all new, it isyet adjacent to and adjoining the old part of the city. It is notfar distant, geographically, from the fashionable portion; it iswithin a half dozen blocks of Commonwealth avenue, of Beacon. BATES HALL.—PUBLIC LIBRARY. Street; but while these thoroughfares are monotonously quiet, withthe decorous rows of private residences, broken now and tlitn byan apartment hotel that vies witli palaces in luxurious fittiug-up,this artistic Latin-like quarter abounds in students who pour outof its clubrooms or restaurants in great numbers; with artists,men and women, who perhaps live in their studios, make theirmatutinal coffee over a gas stove, and dine at the students res-taurant; in lecturers; in the followers and practitioners of occultscience, and mental healing; in spiritual mediums—what youwill. You wilU perhaps be accosted on the sidewalk by a neatlydressed woman with refined courtesy of manner, who offers youa card bearing the legend, Divine Science Home. You maybe favored with a gratuitous copy of The Prophetic Star-Gazer; you may be gently entreated to attend a lecture on theScience of Creation from the Standpoint of Vibration; or in-vited to
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