. The New England magazine. FIREPLACE IN THE BARR MANSION. ashes and prepare for slumber. Thereare few New England villages wherethe bells have a sweeter sound orwhere one would seem to have rightand title to a sweeter sleep than in thisquaint village of old New Ipswich. A PACKAGE OF OLD LOVE LETTERS. FROM THE PRINCE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS. Copied and Edited by C. Alice VERY remnant of thehuman life of long agoawakens our sculptured friezefrom a Central Amer-ican forest, a wall ofwell-laid masonry a thousand feetup on the narrow shelf of someColorado canon, Danish kitch
. The New England magazine. FIREPLACE IN THE BARR MANSION. ashes and prepare for slumber. Thereare few New England villages wherethe bells have a sweeter sound orwhere one would seem to have rightand title to a sweeter sleep than in thisquaint village of old New Ipswich. A PACKAGE OF OLD LOVE LETTERS. FROM THE PRINCE COLLECTION OF MANUSCRIPTS. Copied and Edited by C. Alice VERY remnant of thehuman life of long agoawakens our sculptured friezefrom a Central Amer-ican forest, a wall ofwell-laid masonry a thousand feetup on the narrow shelf of someColorado canon, Danish kitchen-mid-den and Florida shell heap, bronzecelt from an English barrow, gro-tesque pipe from an Ohio mound, pileof the Lake dweller, pestle of the Caveman, beads from the stone graves ofTennessee and arrow points from thefields of New England,—all theserelics of nations that have vanished,leaving only these hints of their civil-ization, fill us with wonder and appealto our sympathy. From nothing,however, can we gain such vivid andcomplete pictures of the social anddomestic life and thought of a formergeneration as from the diaries andcorrespondence it has left give us the truest illustrationsof character and society, because un-studied and not intended for the pub-lic gaze. I must believe that it is atender human sympathy, rather thanmere vulgar curiosity, tha
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