Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-09-27
Letter from Boston.


if one does, it is his loss. It is a most fasci-
mating place. find myself pulled in there
every time go down town, only to stop for
a minute mind you such is my virtuous in
tenton, but the minute lengthcns into an
hour and still am there wandering around
the corridors and seeing all the varied exhibit
tions, or what is more likely, studying the
pictures in the Art Gallery, and prowling
around in pottery departments. Do You
know, until this exhibition had no idea of the
extent to which painting on china was car
ried in this country. 1t is growing very pop
ular as an art, and one that is being taken up
very largely by women. l saw some of the
most artistic things in this department; but
nothing after all more quaint than cup and
saucer, which l was privately treated to
sight of, and which has no place in the eXhi-
bition. 1t belongs to Anne Louise Cary, and
was presented TO her by her Western mana
ger, Maj j. b. Pond, who had it decorated
for her as a sohvenoir of 4 very successful
season. The leading color is real chamois
and on the front of the cup is the monogram,
"a. L. c." in Egyptian red across this mono
gram on pale blue ground, is the word Am
neris" in tiny gold letters Around the edge of
the cup is n bar Of music from the opera
aida" with its accompanying words. Around
the edge of the saucer is prayer TO the
Egyptian god Osiris for the welfare of the
Princess Amneris, in hierogyphic. 1t is an
exquisite piece of workmanship, and was
painted by Miss Mary Jossclyu, Boston ar
tist. There is nothing mere unique shown, al
though there are some very clever Japanese
studies and some exquisite specimens Of flow
er painting.
1t is a decided change coming from the
quiet of the art room to the life Of the Main
Exhibition building. There is the buzz and
whirr of machinery, the spashing of the
fountains, the rush of the cataract the sound
of pianos and the ripple of voices. The first
time one goes, he comes away with II confus-
ed sense of sound and color; it is not until
after the novelty wears OFF, and one has time
! to think it quietly over that individual exhi-
bitions begin to stand out prominently at all
When you once get away from it all, you find
how much you have remembered, and your
second enjoyment commences.
But the Mechanics Fair isn't going to be
| the only attraction of the month. Aren't we
| going to have Baby show, and isn't it going
to be one of the most attractive Of these pc
culiar shows ever given? OF course it is. Mr..
Peck has it in charge, and if man who has
managed n successful dog show and an equal
| ly successful cat show, doesn't know how to
manage q baby show, who does, ] would like
| to know? 1t is not only baby show, mind
| you, but bird show as well, and between
the birds and the babies won't there be mu-
sic! 1t will be the loudest and most protract-
| ed concert ever held in Music Hall. 1t opens
| the 23d of the month and continues a week.
| The pound baby is coming; so are the abb
nos and the colored triplets and other curious
| specimens of babyhood. There are to be
| prizes and prizes, and nice ones too; for Mr..
Peck never does anything half way. 1t is al
ways everything that is promised. It's fun
ny where all the babies come from to exhibit.
l can fancy anybody sending a pet cat or n
remarkable dog, but a baby-no thank you
I'll keep mine at home if you please, where
babies are generally supposed to belong. But
that there are doting parents who desire to
make their children public properly is a re-
markable fact, else We should have no baby
shows Well, it's no matter of mine. l shall
go to see the little dears, of course, but shall
inwardly rage that they are brought into
such publicity when they ought to be safe
and quiet at home.
l heard good story the other day, and it's
a true one, too. party of Boston ladies
who were spending the summer i'll a little
town not far from the White mountains, at
tended fair, which was held 10y the ladies OF
one of the churches Wishing to appear
properly interested, one of the visitors asked
a manager what the proceeds were to be de-
voted to. "Well," was the hesitating reply,
I'VE aint Just certain whether well buy an ice
cream freezer or "A hearse."
The work for the relief OF the yellow fever
sufferers goes hourly on. The treasurer OF
the subscription fund acknowledges Si0,O ,O0t
already received The Church of the Advent
has raised $1,000, and has sent II nurse from
the sisterhood connected with the church
Boston is responding nobly; she never fail
the suffering
The publishers are making their autumn
announcements and are just getting out theil
FIRST books for the season. Houghton Os
good will lead of with volume of poems by
Whittier, which will contain all those writer
by him during the past four years, and vii
take its name from the leading poem, ''Th,
Vision of Echard." This poem you will re
member appeared in the September numbe
of the Atlantic this will be followed by
new edition of Boston Illustrated. Nandyk
is the next in order OF the Artist Biographies
which will shortly be issued. But the mos
attractive of the earlier publications-an,
they are for the children, too-will be tin
:. third of the charming and popular Bodle,
Books by Horace f. Scudder, and a new il
- lustrated edition Of Mother Goose. The frs
named is called The Boiley Family o.
Wheels, and is an account of journey b.
carriage, which the jolly family take throug
the quaint old seaport towns of Eastern Mas
sachusetts 1t is brimful of incident and in
struction is beautifully illustrated and boun
in the same quaint style of the two precedin
volumes don't know any books l would S
quickly put into the hands of children q
: these: they are so well written, and are intei
=, polated with stories and poems, giving tn
children a taste of the purest and best literG
ture in the languages then, too the artist
sense is cultivated by the beauty of the me
chanical parts of the books. The illustrate
= "Mother Goose" is most fascinating for chi
dren and grown people alike and is eXquii
itely gotten up. 1t is printed ON heavy pa
per in clear type and all the old rhymes al
= preserved The illustrations, by Alfred KaI
pes, are original and unique there are eigl
ull-paged colored prints, and the leaf tht
protects them, instead of being the usual lei
of tissue paper, is fine Japanese paper o
, which is printed in gilt letters the rhym
which the picture illustrates, sketch {
Mother Goose and the Goose family sinclu'
. ed in the book, and is a true history of IL
venerable dame. 1t will be, altogether, OF