BOSTON AND ITS ENVIRONS. Q\ 



life-like marble are Samuel Adams, William Llovd 

 Garrison and Colonel William Prescott. The Eman- 

 cipation Group is a duplicate of the "Freedman's Me- 

 morial" statue in Washington. The soldiers' monu- 

 ments in Dorchester, Charlestown, Roxbury, West 

 Roxbury and Brighton commemorate the unnamed, 

 uncounted, but not unhonored dead who laid dowD 

 their lives on the battlefields of the Civil War. 



"The bravely dumb who did tlieir deed, 

 And scorned to blot it with a name ; 

 Men of the plain, heroic breed, 



Who loved Heaven's silence more than fame." 



An interesting object is the Ether Monument on 

 the Arlington street side of the Public Gardens erected 

 in recognition of the fact that it was in the Massa- 

 chusetts General Hospital — in the face of terrible 

 opposition and coldness and discouragement, as history 

 tells us, though the marble does not — that Dr. Sims 

 first gave the world his wonderful discovery of the 

 power of ether to cause insensibility to pain. 



That there should be so many of these fine pieces 

 in Boston's parks and public places is matter for con- 

 gratulation but scarcely for surprise. As a patron of 

 music, literature, art and all the external graces of 

 civilization she has so long and so easily held her su- 

 premacy that one is half inclined -to believe that at 

 least a delegation of the Muses, if not the whole 

 sisterhood, had exchanged the lonely and unappre- 

 ciated grandeur of Parnassus for a seat on one of 

 Boston's three hills. The Handel and Haydn Society, 

 the oldest musical society in the United States ; the 

 Harvard Musical Association; the famous Boston 



