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HAVE YOU HEARD OF ESSEX THE BEAUTIFUL? 
All alone by itself, surrounded by high hills from which ate the most beautiful views imaginable, forest, lake, and river with the white ; sand 
dunes and the ocean in the offing, with its miles of woodland drives, with most excellent facilities for boating and fishing making it a veritable 
Summer Paradise. This sounds like a dream but it is a living fact. 
B. FRANK RAYMOND, 
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last departure for Europe in 1869, Howells made one of 
the guests at the private dinner party in his honor, 
with such other famous men as Emerson, Agassiz, 
Yolmes, Lowell, Green, Norton, Whipple and Dana. 
Daniel Webster, who walked, too, in this arena of 
great men, as scholar and sometimes as political oppo- 
nent, used to find relaxation from the stress of his publie 
career on the North Shore at Beverly Farms. 
Franklin Haven of Boston, who was among the 
earliest summer residents of the Farms, along in the 
thirties, used to be his host. The Haven estate then 
bordered on the sea. The coming of Daniel Webster 
each autumn for a stay at the Haven estate was a red 
letter day. The youths of the place always arranged 
out-door games. The distinguished statesman always 
watched or entered into the sports with great spirit. 
On a portion of the Haven estate, Mrs. Levi Z. 
Leiter, of Chicago and Washington, built last season, 
‘‘Rdgewater,’’ her costly marble and brick mansion, 
and surrounded it with the acquisitions of such an es- 
tate. For the mother-in-law of Lord Curzon, Ex-Viceroy 
of India, these traditional charms, which cluster around 
the Haven estate, will give it added significance to the 
honored hostess of the President of the United States, 
both in Washington and on the North Shore. 
Magnolia claims distinction as the rendezvous in 
‘76 and ’77 of noted people of the literary world. Fore- 
most in interest was Louisa M. Aleott, who spent a 
season there. One of her famous juvenile books, ‘‘ Jack 
and Jill,’? was written there. ‘‘ Willow Cottage’’ was 
the famous and unpretentious hostelry of those ’70’s. 
Mrs. Maria H. Bray, who conducted for many years 
Braewood, at West Gloucester, was the proprietor of 
Willow Cottage. She also was the hostess for Wm. Dean 
Tlowells, when he summered at The Beachcroft, Hast 
Gloucester. Mary E. Wilkins used to spend her sum- 
mers at the Oceanside, Magnolia, when a resident of 
Massachusetts. 
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By the death of Tolstoy and Mark Twain, Rudyard 
Kipling remains the only living author of international 
fame. This author of world-wide distinctions made 
literary history for the North Shore, when he spent two 
seasons with his family at the Fair View hotel, Kast 
Gloucester. His Gloucester story, ‘‘Captains Cour- 
aveous,’’? was the result of his two visits in the early 
"00’g. At this same hostelry have summered Frank 
Dempster Sherman, the poet and Miss Alice Brown, 
the author. 
The list grows in magnitude and importance as I 
review my reminiscences. Octave Thanet was in Pigeon 
Cove, Rockport, during the summer of 1899, George 
Cable at the Pilgrim House, Rocky Neck, East Glouces- 
ter, during the season of 1904. Prof. John Fiske, the 
late famous historian, author, lecturer and philosopher, 
died at Hawthorne Inn, July 4, 1901. He was an annual 
cuest at the inn for several seasons. Last season (1910) 
Booth Tarkington spent a few days at the Moorland, 
Bass Rocks, as the guest of his sister, Mrs. Jameson of 
Indianapolis. He came from Kennebunkport, Maine, 
where he was spending the summer. James Lane Allen 
spent a season at Annisquam. The late Jean Clemens 
was responsible for a visit during 1909 of her dis- 
tinguished father, ‘‘Mark Twain’’ to the North Shore. 
She, with a party of New York women, occupied that 
summer, the Garland cottage, Eastern Point, Kast 
Gloucester. 
“The Founder of American Poetry,’’ William 
Cullen Bryant, in ‘‘Thanatopsis’’ says :— 
‘*To him who in the love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms she speaks 
A various language.’’ 
Nature as expressed by the length and breadth of 
the North Shore has aided a brilliant and immortal 
croup of writers to speak this ‘‘various language.’’ 
The North Shore is justly proud, therefore, in the 
distinction gained thereby. 
B. F. Keith’s Theatre. 
It has been years since B. F. 
Keith’s Theatre has had a summer 
attraction that could compare with 
‘““Swept by Summer Breezes,’’ the 
new summer offering now running 
at that playhouse. ‘‘The Meister- 
singers,’’ composed of the Harvard, 
Schubert, and Weber Male Quar- 
tettes, and Onita, the human elf, 
who are the most popular features 
of the new production, have proved 
a decided innovation in the amuse- 
ment line. The splendid singing has 
already become the talk of Boston, 
and so much interest has been 
aroused that arrangements have 
been made to continue the engage- 
ment for a second week. 
tirely new program of songs has 
been provided, and several new and 
novel features will be introduced. 
An -en- . 
Onita, the cute little Brownie, who 
has become tremendously popular 
among the children, will also appear 
in her quaint ‘‘Brownie dance.”’ 
‘““The Meistersingers’’ will be a fea- 
ture of an unusually strong bill, 
chief among the novelties being the 
Four Regals, a remarkable troupe of 
European strong men who appear in 
a spectacular scenic production en- 
titled ‘‘The Armorers,’’ Johnny 
Johnston, the Scotch entertainer, 
The Langdons in ‘‘A Night on the 
Boulevard’’; Lillian Ashley, the 
dainty singing comedienne; and 
Pollard, a clever comedy juggler, 
will also appear, besides several fea- 
tures yet to be announced. 
SUITING THE ACTION TO THE WORD 
At a lecture, a well-known author- 
ity on economics mentioned the fact 
that in some parts of America the 
number of men _ was considerably 
larger than that of women, and he 
added humorously, “I can, therefore, 
recommend to the ladies to emigrate 
to that part.” 
A young lady seated in one of the 
last rows of the auditorium got up 
and, full of indignation, left the room 
rather noisily, whereupon the lecturer 
remarked, “I did not mean that it 
should be done 
IT HAD LOST ITS SPRING 
“Had a puncture, my friend?” 
asked the passer, with an air of in- 
terest. ‘The chauffeur looked up, and 
swallowed his feelings with a huge 
gulp. 
“No,. sir,” he replied. “I’m just 
changing the air in the tires. The 
other lot’s worn out, you know!” 
in such a hurry!’”. 
