Year: 1870

weather thus far, have been from about the mid
die of June till near the end of July. The NOR
tality in the city during that time was great but
it seems to be capable of explanation by prevent
able causes. The numerous instances of sun
stroke occurred almost exclusively in cases in
which intemperance and over-exposure TO the
sun, or the depressing influence Of great heat.
were combined. Your correspondent escaped
most of this heated term by judiciously timed
vacation Of near a months length, passed in the
eastern part Of Massachusetts, in Rhode Island
and Connecticut. 1t would be interesting to
speak of the many physical improvements which
two years have worked in the older as well as
the newer parts of Boston improvements that
promise if persevered in a few years longer, to
put that city, archltecturaly ahead of New
York Boston still builds her solid warehouses
and public buildings of stone, while New York
INDUCES largely IN iron, or uses the abomnation
of stone supported by iron piIlars-a mixture
that always reminds one of the image with feet
part of iron and part of clay" that troubled the
dreams of Nebuchadnezzar.


There is a comfortable sense of soldity, strength
and endurance in granite and marble, and might
almost say in brick, that pats to the blush the
metallic mpudence of iron. though you cover 1t
with white paint an inch thick Far be it from
me to decry that metal whose uses stamp this as
an age of unequaled material civilization But
let the use Of iron be confined strictly to the
sphere for which it it is ftted-that of pure
utility-and let it not invade the domain of
aesthetics or art, until at least the laws of its
adaptation and management have been discover
ed. In its own domain iron has its ten thousand
uses. But copy in iron of the forms appropri-
ate to wood or stone is not architecture and
when 1t offers itself, as support, to pillar up
real work in stone the latter only suffers from
the alliance might mention score of impos-
ing buildings in New York in which this use of iron
has ruined them. | see also in the architecture of
Boston quicker and more willing recognition Of
the principle trittom the arch there is no archi-
lecture 1t is particularly pleasant to see the
preference that Is beginning to be given to the
pointed arch. The Sears building, standing on
the corner of Washington and Court Streets is





up at the Neck,-in Boston they technically call
up doicn, and down, up,-though. in the main,
built with care and of beautiful material, are
without the use of the arch. The architects
were, perhaps, deferred from employing it by the
cowardy twinge of an economic conscience.


The " Common and Public Gardens" sit
uated as they are near the heart of Boston, still
remain physical features of the greatest attract
veness in that city Efforts have been made, at
no small expense, to increase this by the addition
of statues and fountains, etc. the result of which
is far from being an unmixed adornment. Ger
tainly, no one would think of applying the quota
ton, thing of beauty is joy forever" to the
Everett monument, or to the heavy bridge that
spans the quiet lake IN the Public Gardens
All strangers will be interested to learn that the
streets of the old part Of Boston,-sO famous
for their narrowness and crOokedness, having
originally followed the meanderings of the prim
tive cow-paths,-are now receiving attention,
and that efforts are being made to straighten and
widen them. For our part, we do not object to
their crookedness and no true lover of the
Hub" nor any one whose knowledge of its ins
and outs is intimate enough to enable him to
turn them to good account, in cutting of corners
and saving the long detows which city laid out
in paraelograms imposes will fail to think
kindly and gratefully of this very quality of
crookedness, both for its convenience and its
picturesqueness.


Boston is STILL as ever the great centre where
Hawaiians love to congregate, and where, through
the agency of the Hawaiian Club, which main
tains fourishng existence they are brought
more in contact with each other, socially, than in
any other Eastern city.


Andover, which We next visited, is the seat of
three institutions of learning, Theological Sem
mary, Phillips Academy" and the Abbott
Female Seminary The first offers, to those
who desire to pursue theological studies. advan-
tages unsurpassed by any similar institution in
the land Phillips Academy still maintains a
high reputation as classical and preparatory
school while the lovely and accomplished stu
dents and graduates of the Abbott Female
Seminary'.-tbe fem SENS" as they are affec-
tiOnately termed by the male students of An
dover.-proved by their manners and their intel
lgence as well as by the quality Of their closing
exercises, which consisted 10 part Of a remarkably
well executed calisthenic or gymnastic perform
ance that they we're worthy of all the attention
and thought bestowed upon them by their male
rivals,-you may call them brothers, or cousins,
or lovers, if you please.


But, educationally considered Andover is, par
eminence, a theological town. In spite of the
somewhat-P Philistine camp Of the Phillips
Academy" boys, the social atmosphere Of the
town is decidedly saturated with ii theological
influence albeit the students and professors Of
the same are most generous, cultivated geLial
and polite. as well as pious set Of gentlemen If
their creed savors too strongly for some. of se-
verify or their theology too much OF rigor. GER
tainly no one would find that fault with the |
scenery of this most favored place, or with the |
frequent magnificent sunsets. which, viewed from |
" Sunset Rock wild ledge of great resort, |
cause all speculative differences to vanish before
the contemplation Of nature.


The Theological Seminary the possessor of
a very fine library building, made Of sandstone.
trimmed with pressed brick and pink granite.
The books within, both as regards quality and |