Edward Burton

About three o’clock one sultry afternoon in August, 188-, a canoe containing two young men might have been seen slowly making its way southward upon that picturesque sheet of wa...

By six o’clock, on the evening of the same day, a lively group, engaged in animated conversation, were seated on the piazza of the handsome cottage of Edmund Bonbright. This imp...

It becomes necessary to transport the reader from Bar Harbor and the events of the last chapter to a small inland town in New Hampshire, and also to turn back “the whirligig of...

A few weeks subsequent to the receipt of Edward Burton’s last letter from Dartmouth, a little group--consisting of Mr. Johnson, Mrs. Burton, Edward Burton, and William Tapley--w...

For a period of two weeks after Edward Burton’s admission to the hospital, a most intense fever scorched his body and fired his brain. By spells, his temperature became almost f...

MY DEAR EDWARD,--I was pleased to learn by yours of the 16th, that you are having a delightful visit at home, and are “all so well and happy.” How I would like to join in some o...

It is doubtless unnecessary to remind the reader that on a certain evening a social after-dinner gathering took place in the drawing-room of the Bonbright cottage at Bar Harbor....

The next morning Dr. Frustadt remained in his own apartments for two or three hours, excusing himself on account of important correspondence. As those who chronicle events often...

“No hiding-place is this for mournful fate, No sorrow here is guest; These summer palaces are dedicate To pleasure and to rest. Here Fashion plumes her brilliant, airy wing, And...

Life is like a kaleidoscope: every turn brings new forms, colors, and combinations. A slight movement of the rudder turns the vessel into another course, and at length into a di...

The day upon which the incident at the Shore-Walk occurred closed in an eventful manner at the Bonbright cottage. It was nearly midnight when the noise of carriage wheels and lo...

Amidst the confused din of other voices, these words rang out in the clear morning air. This exuberant hilarity proceeded from a party of excursionists who had seated themselves...

On the morning following the excursion, Rosamond made known her engagement to her mother and sister. Upon her return the night before, she was delighted to have exclusive posses...

Gentle reader, you shall have the benefit of a hint if you cannot patiently abide moralizing. By a whisper in your ear we warn you that if you are only interested in the simple...

“How are you, doctor?” exclaimed a young man to an elderly one as they met on the crowded walk in Washington Street late one pleasant afternoon. The elderly gentleman wore green...

Tapley had returned to the city after remaining for ten days the guest of his friend. Before they parted, it was understood that Burton would soon visit Boston, to find a wider...

Professor Frustadt passed two or three weeks very agreeably in Boston, and then visited New-York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, going from the latter place to Chicago. It i...

Mr. Bonbright, pale, weary, and anxious, was seated at his desk in his busy counting-room. Every few moments a messenger entered hurriedly with a report of the fluctuations in s...

Mr. Bonbright grew weaker in body and more distressed in mind, and Dr. Podram, the family physician, sadly announced to the family that within a week or two the worst might be e...

“The world rolls round--mistrust it not,-- Befalls again what once befell; All things return, both sphere and mote, And I shall hear my bluebird’s note, And dream the dream of A...

“I heard or seemed to hear the chiding sea Say, Pilgrim, why so late and slow to come? Am I not always here, thy summer home? Is not my voice thy music, morn and eve? My breath...

for home and private use. Visionary and impracticable aspects of the subject are eliminated, and a scientific basis is found. The book is not technical, but thoroughly plain and...