THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
ENTRANCE TO SLEEPY HOLLOW CEMETERY, CONCORD, MASS. 
lars, are of wrought iron, the masonry being of buff 
brick with sandstone trimmings. An excellent 
idea may be had of them from the accompanying 
photograph by the writer. 
Passing through the gates and following the 
winding driveway to the left, we come to Ridge 
Path which ascends a steep knoll: on this well trod- 
den path and on the crest of the incline to the right 
is the Thoreau lot. The original tablet marking the 
grave of Henry D. Thoreau, who died May 6th. , 
1862, was of brown stone, but within a few years 
this has been replaced by a more durable monu- 
ment of granite. 
In the next lot, on the same side, lie the re- 
mains of A. Bronson Alcott and his daughter, Lou- 
isa M. Alcott, that great favorite and friend of the 
young people the world over, whose books have at- 
tained a circulation unparalleled in the history of 
juvenile literature. The stones marking these graves 
THE GRAVE OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. 
are perfectly plain, except for the initials of each. 
Bronson Alcott died March 4, 1888 and his daugh- 
ter two days later. 
Directly across from this lot is that of the Haw- 
thornes. The grave of this great novelist is marked 
with a very simple marble stone bearing the words 
“Hawthorne, Died May 19, 1864.” The mound is 
covered with shining myrtle. The lot is enclosed 
by an Arbor Vita; hedge and since the accompany- 
ing photograph was made it has been necessary to 
erect a wire fence outside of the hedge, as visitors 
entering destroyed the myrtle upon the grave, and 
when this was gone, broke the- hedge down nearly 
level with the ground merely for the sake of a me- 
mento from the burial place of the noted author, 
whose fame is also world-wide. 
THE GRAVE OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 
