Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Atlantic Monthly, 1903, Vol. 91: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
But the restless guest has settled down at last in this spacious sunny room on a level with the elm-tops. Once, at least, in its century-old history, the room was the chamber of a bride. Here are her initials, scratched upon the window-pane with her ring, while she was waiting for the carriage to bear her to the church, more than forty years ago. Later it was the nest of a quaint Old pair of abolitionists, who, when the days of their warfare were accomplished, here lived out their lives in peace. Many pairs of eyes have gazed into the plain marble fireplace, or out across the treetops toward the open country, with out leaving behind them any memory or sign. The walls of the room now speak of literary associations merely. They are hung with portraits of former edi tors, and with autograph manuscripts of the brilliant group of writers who gave to the Atlantic its early fame. Yet some human quality other than lit erary, some touch of the ardor, the cu riosity, the silent endurance of the men and women who have lived within the stout brick walls Of Number 4 may still be present here, secretly fashioning the fortunes of the Atlantic of to-day.
Does this lurking genius loci affect the magazine, whether its conductors will or no? Take, for instance, the view from these sunny windows. They look down upon the mild activities of Park Street, to the left upon the black lines of people streaming in and out of the Subway, in front toward the Common with its fountain that never ?ows and its Frog Pond gleaming through the elms, and to the right toward the mon ument to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
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