Word: strollers
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Frank Bolles has just published a new book entitled "At the North of Beatcamp Water," the "chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December." This book supplements in point of time Mr. Bolles' previous one called the "Land of the Lingering Snow" which covers the six months from January to June. The new book is attractive from cover to cover. The title suggests the theme. It is a natural history, of both flora and fauna, thrown into the form of a narrative in which the interest centre in the movements of one man, the observer...
...Secretary of Harvard College, Mr. Frank Bolles, has at last appeared, and in "The Land of the Lingering Snow," every Harvard man who has in him the slightest love of nature will take the keenest interest. In this delightful book, Mr. Bolles gives us "the chronicles of a stroller in New England from January to June" which embody in some twenty-six chapters the observations of a thorough Nature-lover who turns his back on his comfortable Cambridge home and cheerful back-log fire on many a day, when the lazily-inclined would hesitate about going out, and spends...