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whose memory we love and revere it may be 

 said that few men of recent times have had a 

 higher conception of bookmaking as one of the 

 fine arts. These two institutions have set a lofty 

 standard for the Athenaeum Press, which has lately 

 come to bear them company. The past half cen- 

 tury has seen Cambridge come into the foremost 

 rank among the few publishing centres of the 

 world, where books are printed with faultless accu- 

 racy and artistic taste. 



The visitor to Cambridge from Brookline, as he 

 leaves the bridge at Brookline Street, comes upon 

 a pleasant dwelling house, with a private observa- 

 tory, and hard by it a plain brick building. That 

 is the shop of Alvan Clark & Sons, who have 

 carried the art of telescope-making to a height 

 never reached before. There have been made the 

 most powerful refracting telescopes in the world, 

 and one of the firm, more than thirty years ago, 

 himself acquired fame as an astronomer for his dis- 

 covery of the companion of Sirius. 



From this quiet nook in the Port one's thoughts 

 naturally turn to the Harvard Observatory, which 

 in those days the two Bonds made famous for their 

 accurate methods of research, their discoveries 

 relating to the planet Saturn, and their share 

 in the application of photography to telescopic 



