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MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1908. 
A WEEKLY SoC una DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE NORTH SHORE 
24 Pages Three Cents. 
mol VI. No. 13 
HOURS WITH LESS KNOWN 
WRITERS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
One of the most original as_ well 
as learned men of the reign of Charles 
Il, was Sir Thomas Browne. ' He was 
born in London, studied at Oxford, and 
obtained great reputation as a physician; 
he was knighted in 1671 and died in 
His travels and studies on the 
Continent made him one of the most cul- 
tured men of his time. In addition to 
the cares of his profession, he gave much 
time to literature, and has left works of 
Browne has this in 
common with Bunyan and Cowley, that 
he has a fervent style, a meditative cast 
of thought, with a quiet vein of humor 
and a poetic soul. His style is often as 
didactic as that of South, while like 
Jeremy Taylor he lifts us on the wings 
of fancy and charms us with his quaint 
turns of thought. He could write the 
most serious things in the most serious 
manner, but with an imagination that 
tinged with poetic hues everything that 
it touched, and with a vivid humor that 
is always striking light from the most 
unpromising materials. Every page 
_ bears marks of study and reflection; al- 
most every sentence 
bristles with sur- 
prises and odd conceits; his work is a 
mosaic of facts, fancies, solid reasoning 
and airy speculation. He combines an 
inquisitive mind that pries into everything 
knowable and unknowable, with a most 
humble and reverential spirit. Without 
sound 
churchman; and without cant, he is pro- 
foundly religious. 
Sir Thomas is a writer who is often 
_ not to be understood too literally; he 
_ writes dramatically; he is a humorist to 
the core; as he himself says in one of 
his books, “‘there are many things de- 
livered rhetorically, many expressions 
therein merely tropical . and there- 
fore many things to be taken in a soft 
_and flexible sense, and not to be called 
unto the rigid test of reason.’’  Fairy- 
land was still in his time a province of 
MOTH CAMPAIGN MUST BE STARTED 
IN: MANCHESTER WOODS AT ONCE 
To check Future Ravages of Gypsy and Browntail Moths. 
The State and 
Summer Residents will Help if Town will do its share. 
The necessity for prompt action on 
the part of Manchester in the big cam- 
paign already started in fighting the gypsy 
and browntail moths in the woods back 
of the immediate shore line, is urged by 
those who know of the actual situation. 
The condition is serious, —more_ serious 
than most people realize. 
The movement started by Col. Wm. 
D. Sohier and a committee of the sum- 
mer residents to carry on this big cam- 
paign, has met with good results and the 
work has already been started in the 
Beverly section. The work is being 
done under the direction of Supt. Kirk- 
land, of the state. Bev erly has appro- 
priated $5000, the state is giving $5000 
and $5000 has been raised by subscrip- 
tion. 
In order to carry on the work in the 
Manchester woods, around Chebacco 
and South Essex a like amount must be 
available. ‘The state is willing to give 
$5000, Col. Sohier guarantees $5000 
from his committee, but both the state 
and the committee of summer residents 
are unwilling to give the amounts stated 
unless the town gives an equal sum. 
‘This means that Manchester is able to 
have about $15,000 worth of work done 
if the town ie gives one-third of the 
amount. 
Col. Sohier explains the situation in 
the following communication, addressed 
to J. A. Lodge, Editor of the NorrH 
SHORE BREEZE: 
‘Boston, March 25, 1908. 
‘Dear Sir: Iam ein to see that you 
are doing good work for us in the moth 
campaign. I think, however, that there 
isa slight misunderstanding among some 
of the situation at the present time so far 
as the work to be done is concerned and 
the money that is forthcoming to do it 
with. Iam trying my best to have all 
that tract of woodland in Beverly, Wen- 
ham, Hamilton, Essex and Manchester, 
treated under one comprehensive plan 
and scheme, under the charge of the 
Continued on page 4 
the empire of science, and strange 
beings—griffins, phenixes, dragons, bas- 
ilisks and salamanders—still moved 
through the pages of natural history 
A curiosity hunter, such as Browne cer- 
tainly was, was sure of finding plenty of 
game. Any freak of nature had for the 
good physician of Norwich an irresistible 
attraction, and it is no wonder if we do 
not find in him an inexorably severe 
guide to truth, that he sometimes seems 
to believe the most absurd fables. But 
with all his fancy and taste for the mar- 
vellous, there is everywhere such a_ sub- 
stratum of good sense that we are com- 
pelled to admire the quality of the 
thought while we smile at the whimsical 
oddity of the expression. 
Like many other writers of his time, 
and beyond most of them, Browne’s 
style is dishgured by Peatinigens Cole- 
ridge, while admitting that his ‘‘ style is 
often truly great and magnificent,’’ adds 
that it is “too often stiff and hyper- 
latinistic.’’ It abounds in such words as, 
assuefaction, propense, elucitation, mo- 
rosity, supinity, cunctation, iniquinated, 
etc. But the use of Viatinicne was the 
vogue in the 16th century, and even 
later. It i is remarkable that our com- 
mon version of the Bible is so free from 
them. The Douay version, printed 
only a few years earlier, contains such 
words as longanimity, contristate, zeal- 
atours, suasible, domesticals, and many 
others, which failed to secure a perma- 
nent place! in our language. It was an 
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