Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections). THE NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE (_AND BAY STATE MONTHLY_) An Illustrated Monthly OF THE HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, LITERATURE, EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL INTERESTS OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES AND PEOPLE VOLUME IV BOSTON BAY STATE MONTHLY COMPANY NO. 43 MILK STREET 1886 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1886, by the BAY STATE MONTHLY COMPANY, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. All rights reserved. Typography by J. S. Cushing & Co., Boston. Presswork by Berwick & Smith, Boston. * * * * * Transcriber's Note: Minor typos have been corrected and footnotes moved to the end of the article. This issue has the Table of Contents for all of Volume IV. It also seems to be a volume in transition. On the first page of the issue, there is a note that states that it is VOL. IV. NO. 1. of the Old Series, and VOL. I. NO. 1. of the New Series. The full page portrait of M. R. Waite, Chief-Justice of the U. S. listed in the table of contents as facing page 1 did not appear in the scans. * * * * * CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. Abbot Academy. Six Illust. by Frank A. Bicknell and others Annie Sawyer Downs 136 Along the Kennebec, (Illust.) Henry S. Bicknell 197 Andover, An Illustrious Town, (Illust.) Rev. F. B. Makepeace 301 Art in Book Illustration Charles E. Hurd 37 Illustrations: The Christ Child--Forest of Ardennes--Stamboul--Ianthe--Tower of the Mengia--The Lady of the Lake--"How they Carried the Good News"--Evening by the Lakeside--Maternity--"The Swanherds where the sedges are"--The Silent Christmas. Attleboro, Mass. An historical and descriptive sketch C. M. Barrows 27 Barnard, Henry, The American Educator The late Hon. John D. Philbrick 445 Bennett, Hon. Edmund Hatch 225 Boston University School of Law Benjamin R. Curtis 218 Brown University, (Illust.) Reuben A. Guild, LL.D. 1 Cape Ann, A Trip Around Elizabeth Porter Gould 268 Child, Lydia Maria Olive E. Dana 533 Daughter of the Puritans, A Anna B. Bensel 452 Dorris's Hero.--A Romance of the Olden Time Marjorie Daw 463 Editor's Table 87, 177, 279, 378, 475, 557