Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ft more behind. One does notthink of it as having been discovered as Bar Harbor was discovered, well TN-ith-in the memory of even the middle-ageddiner - out. Society was represented,and gracefully represented, at Lenox,years ago in many a great, white, elm-shaded house. It seems that therenever can have been anything ciaideabout it at any time. The famous BarHarbor stoiy of the summer boarder who asked his landlord if he should jDuthis boots outside his door, and waspromptly informed that there was notthe slightest danger that anybodywould tech em, is a tale that couldnever conceivably have been told ofLenox. The Berk shires seem alwaysto have been civilized, and indeed it isan old countiT. The ancient housesand the good roads prove this—thosegood Berkshire roads to which weAmericans can always turn with assur-ance when taunted by our Englishfiiends—as our English friends willsometimes taunt us—with the condi-tion of our common highways. Andindeed these Lenox roads are blessings
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: i-rpr-i 7 ,■ I 5 1. .^ » l^ Curtiss. that must be appreciated by anyonewho has driven much in other partsof the countr3\ The relief that is af-forded by the knowledge that beforehim lie miles of firm, sure ways, is verycomfortable, and freedom from con-stant thought of his horses, enables himto enjoy the more fully the gloriouscountry that rolls about him. Andwhat a land it is ! It would seem thatno fault could be found with the Berk-shire scenery, and the only fault everfound with it that came within thenotice of the writer, was one of surfeitrather than of any lack of satisfaction.But if there is any difficulty with theBerkshire landscape, it is in the num-ber of its brooks. Two, three, or half adozen are all very well, but when, ineffect, they seem endless, and everyoneapparently more delightful than theothers, it is different. You start intoquick enthusiasm at the sight of thefirst, tumbling clear and cool over itsrocky bed—here in quiet pools catchingreflected gleams of co

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