The is not exactly the book I thought it was going to be--though I can say the same of its author for that matter. I had intended this book to set forth some features of the Earth that make it to be preferred to Heaven as a place of present abode, and to note in detail the peculiar attractions of Hingham over Boston, say,--Boston being quite the best city on the Earth to live in. I had the book started under the title "And this Our Life" --when, suddenly, war broke out, the gates of Hell swung wide open into Belgium, and Heaven began to seem the better place. Meanwhile, a series of lesser local troubles had been brewing--drouth, caterpillars, rheumatism, increased commutation rates, more co…
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