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Rose of New England-Rev. Dr. Leonard
Woo)sey Bacon-Donald G. mitchell.
from the Boston Homo Journal.l
Recent years have brought to the
front three distinct classes or types of
popular literature, which may be thus
described: The adventurous and STIR
ring, the miasmatic and the simple
and wholesome. Among the masters
of the school first mentioned are STAN
ley Weymand, Haggard, Max Pember-
ton, and. In some of his books, Anthony
Hope,
The second class, the "miasmatic," is
represented by such novelists as the au-
thors of 1.-THE Yellow Aster" and ships
that Pass in the Night" stories that
almost literally exhale from their pages
a sickly and unwholesome vapor The
type of literature designated as the
"simple and wholesome" has among its
opponents such delightful writer's as
Rose Terry Cooke, Miss Jewett, the au-
thors of "Lisbeth Wilson" and Dan
Wis Folks" and Clifton Johnson, author
of 1.-THE New England Country"
Lovers of New England are under i'm
mense obligations to these and other
charming delineators of its natural
scenery and its quaint and dear old
customs and people. They take us
back to other and simpler If not better
days, methods, and men and women,
to 'nob1er modes of life with sweeter
manners, purer laws"
/ love to read about the women and
men, the boys and girls of the good old
days of New England, and compare
them, as well as / may, with their sue
cessors of more polished times and this
period of a wider if not more thorough
education. But 1t is my purpose here
TO confine myself to certain very desul-
tory observations of my own concern
ing the Connecticut city in which I
write, town not fnaptly termed by its
admirers ''The Rose of New England"
Save perhaps a few of those pictur-
esque villages that nestle at the feet of
the White hills of New Hampshire or
the Green mountains Of Vermont, there
can scarcely be found in all New Eng
land a lovelier town than this. 1 love
TO stand on the summit of Lanman' Is
hill and look down on this valley City
of the Thames"-its stately dwellings
and clustering churches, it's shapely
elms and naples, and, winding sinu-
Dusly though the sylvan landscape, the
twin silver-footed streams to which are
due its green beauty and half its
charm.
There is something very interesting
and amusing as well in the more or less
arbitrary distinctions into which "soci
ETY." is sure to resolve itself, no less ir
the least of New England towns thar
In the great cities of our beloved land
we smile, perhaps, at the thought Of
an American aristocracy; yet its exist,
ence and it's edicts are as real as kin
dred growths in ancient European cen
tres Of commerce and social life. The
eoclal line here between old historic
families--the Huntingtons, the Ian
mans, the Trumbulls and others, anc
the many whose family roots strike
deeply into the soil of the old towns
as tangible, though doubtless les:
strenuously drawn, than that which di
vides the less favored people of the Ba!
State from those in whose veins flow!
''tIle true Brahmin blood"-the Lowells
Cabots, Sturgises, Grays Of Boston; tn,
Lymans and Aspinwalls and Amorys q
ErookIi:le, and the Wares, Cunning
hams, Channings and Russells of ex
elusive Milton. But questions of soci
ology and kindred abstruse sciences ar
trif1e@ out of place on this sober page
ominational-I almost wrote reli
gious-distinctions and divisions ar
matters with which no true son o
daughter of New England Is ever Who'll
1y unfamiliar. The marvellous growtl
within the last forty years Of Christia,
liberality, both in thought and in prac
tice, has had, I think, nowhere an
more delightful or practical develop
nent than in this ancient town, once
stronghold Of honest but intolerant "or
thodoxy." In these latter and bette
days Congregational and UniversaIis
cIergymen frequently exchange pulpiti
Ministers Of every Protestant denom
nation unite tremendously in grea
movements for the general public goot
There Is less friction here between tn
adflerents of the Roman Catholic fait
and the various UNCONVENTIONAL CON
munions, and even the historic Episcc
pal church, than, with single excer
tion, I have found elsewhere. Anon
The strongest supporters and friends {
The public schools are prominent CON
municants in the Roman Catholi
church.
I think the greater proportion OF OPT
lent citizens are attendants at the Cor
gregational places of worship, althoug
the Christ GpiscopaD church is said t
be a wealthy parish. In the varior
villages which compose the city an
township there are at least four Epi
copa1 churches. AS is commonly ii
case now, at least in the smaller Ne
England towns and cities, there is hel
no extreme rituaiistic observance; a
hough the ordinary church service ,
to-day would have chilled the soul
our good Bishop Eastburn, the war-iil
Massachusetts diocesan of forty veal
ago.
/ should have remarked in it's plat