Vol. Ill. No. 15 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE | 
A. WEEKLY’ JOURNAL: DEVOTED-T0-THE:BEST: INTERESTS-OFTHENORTHSHORE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1906 
TAX RATE OF $9.00 
The Rate in Manchester This Year Will Be 
Very Nearly That Amount, in the Opinion 
of the Selectmen, Who Ask That $96,000 
Be Raised by Taxation—Other Matters of 
Interest That Came Up at Adjourned Town 
Meeting 
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The adjourned town meeting in the 
Manchester Town hall, Monday even- 
ing, was rather slimly attended and 
the interest in the few remaining arti- 
cles of the warrant was apparently at 
apremium. The article calling for a 
sidewalk through the Cove woods, so- 
called, from the railroad crossing 
to the house of Oliver Gilman and a 
concrete sidewalk from there to Mag- 
nolia ave. wasreally the most important 
matter of business. This had been 
left in the hands of a committee com- 
posed of Gardner M. Lane, A. J. 
Lucas, E. P. Hooper, Jacob H. Kit- 
field and Randolph Taylor, who made 
a report at this meeting recommend- 
ing an appropriation of $5000 to cover 
the cost of constructing the sidewalk 
and $1000 for the concrete. 
It is the idea of the committee that 
the sidewalk be built in line with plans 
to be made by a landscape architect, 
which would detract as little as pos- 
sible the beautiful rustic appearance 
of the stretch through the woods. 
The matter was referred to the ad- 
journed meeting three weeks hence. 
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SOME MINOR ENGLISH 
WRITERS 
By D. F. LAmson 
Among the great lights in the 
firmament of English letters, Spen- 
ser, Bacon, Shakespeare, Milton, 
and their peers, there shine many 
stars of less magnitude and_ bril- 
liancy. Of these minor English 
writers, the names of Ben Jonson 
Herbert, Crashaw, Bishop Hall, 
Fuller, Herrick, Thomas Browne, 
Drydeny, “Popes eGray; » Addison 
Johnson, Burke, Goldsmith and 
GCowpeéer/not to” enter “upon the 
nineteenth century, may be men- 
tioned as only less in greatness 
than the great luminaries. Some 
of them may be considered leaders 
in the second rank; and all of them 
have added strength and _ beauty 
to our English speech. Thev dif 
fer from one another, but it is as 
“one star differeth from another 
statein. glory... some. may ,.add 
other names of those who _ have 
enriched the realm of literature 
with their genius, but these at least 
are entitled to a permanent place in 
the republic of letters. In many 
cases time has but added to their 
laurels; many names that were 
almost unknown in their day and 
generation have been “writ large’ 
by posterity. If such names as 
Three Cents 
those of Raleigh, Marvell, Samuel 
Butler, Tsaak Walton, Sir William 
Temple, DeFoe, Thomson, David 
Hume, Gibbon and others are omit- 
ted, it is only because there must 
be a selection. 
With all these authors the writer 
may claim to be somewhat familiar. 
with some more and with some 
less; the principal works of manv 
of these have been the delight of 
his leisure moments for years: 
aside from his more serious occu- 
pations, they have opened to him 
many a by-path of literary profit 
and enjoyment. His main studies 
of English writers have been of 
those of the 17th century, with oc- 
casional excursions into the 16th: 
but to those of the 18th he owes no 
small debt of gratitude. In some 
of the minor writers whose names 
are comparatively unfamiliar. he 
has found much to reward a patient 
study. And sometimes there is a 
relief, after communing with the 
crowned and commanding kings of 
thought, the “sceptered sovereigns” 
of the world of mind, in holding 
fellowship for a while with those 
of less exalted rank, with those 
who we feel are on our own level, 
bone of our bone and flesh of our 
flesh, in descending from the lofty 
and majestic heights to the table- 
lands and the vallevs, where the air 
Grand Surf Tuesday 
Scarcely has the surf along the 
North Shore been better than that 
of Tuesday, following the storm of 
Monday night, accompanied by the 
strong easterly wind blowing in 
from the ocean. Crowds of people 
went to Singing Beach, Manches- 
ter, and to Magnolia to see the surf 
and not a few people came down 
from Boston. The waves broke 
entirely over Eagle Head and 
washed up to the bath houses at the 
beaches in Bevery Farms, Man- 
chester and Magnolia doing some 
little damage. The accompanying 
view is of the rocks off Smith’s 
Point, though the large waves 
Tuesday completely covered them. 
