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Daniel Lothrop.

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��It corresponds with the various eras of its construction. The ancient low- posted rooms with their large open fire-places, in which the genial hickory crackles and glows as in the olden time, have furnishings and appointments in harmony. The more modern apart- ments are charming, the whole com- bination making a most delightful coun- try house.

Mr. Lothrop's enjoyment of art and his critical appreciation is illustrated here as throughout his publications, his

��house being adorned with many ex- quisite and valuable original paintings from the studios of modern artists ; and there is, too, a certain literary fitness that his home should be in this most classic spot, and that the mistress of this home should be a lady of dis- tinguished rank in literature, and that the fair baby daughter of the house should wear for her own the name her mother has made beloved in thousands of American and English households.

���"THE WAYSIDE.

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