Identifier: fictionalrambles1902prin (find matches)
Title: Fictional rambles in & about Boston
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Prindle, Frances Carruth, b. 1867
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Publisher: New York, McClure, Phillips and company
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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MBLES Representatives and avast Number of the prin-cipal Gentry of both Sexes of this and theNeiorhbourino- Towns. This distinguishedgathering melts away and a smaller one files infollowing the casket of Mrs. Lechmere (LionelLincoln) whose funeral train though respect-able was far from extending to that display ofsolemn countenances which Boston, in its peaceand pride, would not have failed to exhibit onany similar occasion. On the south side ofthe wall of the Chapel is a mural tablet toFrances Shirley, the Governors lady who livedin fact as well as fancy. In The Bostonians Henry James asserts thatto the intense Olive Chancellor, evening ser-vice at Kings Chapel was only one degreemore solemn than going to the theatre. AnnaFarquhar, the author of Her Boston Experi-ences, humourously chronicles a woman suffra-gist meetingr here which the heroine out ofcuriosity attended with Aunt Drusilla. But atrue spirit of reverence for the quaint churchwith its high-backed box pews cushioned in 238
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sS ■5^ 239 IN AND ABOUT B O S T O N red stuff, its old-fashioned English gallery andhigh pulpit reached by winding stairs, tookher there many a Sunday afternoon to vesperservice. Shadowed by this ancient church and bury-ing-ground, in busy School Street, in front ofthe City Hall, stands the statue of BenjaminFranklin, in alluding to which Dr. Hale in MyDouble and How He Undid Me says : Rich-ard Greenough once told me that in studyingfor the statue of Franklin he found that theleft side of the great mans face was philosophicand reflective, and the right side funny andsmiling. If you go and look at the bronzestatue you will find he has repeated this ob-servation there for posterity. The easternprofile is the portrait of the statesman Frank-lin, the western of poor Richard. Across the street is the Parker House or Parkers as it is familiarly known where the Saturday Club gathered about the long table(Holmess A Mortal Antipathy) such a rep-resentation of all that was best in American 24

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