Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Blue Hill Range and of the Middlesex Fells, calls for more immediate action. The first desire of the Commissioners, therefore, is that the General Court take immediate steps to save as a perpetual heritage to the people, these two reservation, so accessible, so abounding in the natural beauties of mountain, forest, waterfall and lake, so rich in historic relations, that they would give Boston a park system unique among the cities of the world...
...petition addressed to the General Court and calling for appropriate action has been prepared by the Appalachian Mountain Club, and may be signed at Memorial Hall, Sever Hall, Massachusetts Hall, or the Foxcroft Club...
...speaking of racing, a writer in Outing says "at present the national tendency toward legislation in racing, recalls the old fable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse, but it is hard to say what a month or even a week may show. The passage of some really satisfactory measure would be of the greatest service, not only to the actual states that would possess them, but as setting an example to the entire country. The plague - for it amounts to nothing less - of unrestricted racing must be checked...
...articles in literature are "Books and Reading in Iceland" by W. E. Mead, "Shakespeare and Copyright" by Horace Davis, and "Thomas William Parsons" by Richard Hovey. Besides these articles there are several more all of which are worthy of note, especially that entitled "White Mountain Forests in Peril" by J. H. Ward. The poetry contributed is "The Eavesdropper" by Bliss Carman and "Hegesias" by Edith M. Thomas, both of which are suggestive and full of hidden meaning...
...CENTURY.This month the Century is devoted to closing up all the old-standing accounts: that is, it is full of conclusions. The end of Mary Ellen Foote's 'Chosen Valley' has come; 'A Mountain Europa' is finished; the last of Thomas Cole's beautiful engravings after the works of the old masters is published, and Henry B. Fuller's 'Chateleine of LaTrinite' says farewell. It is sad that Mr. Cole's series is finished. One has come to look forward and wonder happily what old favorite would be presented next. Never before has such a collection of beautiful works been...