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Show ," - ' " ' --SI . IN EAMQUS concWd TOWN America, has few shrines at which tho people worship jet there are many ipolj around which reverential mi ttatlons cluster nnd that attract not a few people to whom the title of hero worshipers could marcel)' be applied One of those spots la Concord Mass once, the home of that distinguished tolerle of writers who created a new literature that una made Araerlia famous fam-ous wherever the Itugllsh tongue la A read and spoken . Hera lived l.mer. ton the greatest of ,Jl cesiyltts Umgfcl JtL 1oWi "" of ""' JML most delightful of 7 P" Hawthorne, tne matter of pus I toral romance, Thorratl ami others famous In the, world of Intirs To Concord there l always a stream of Tlsltora who pass a . day or two In Mow Ing the scenes nmong wliUli the great literary light of the middle 01 tho century spent their days leisure hours This may have been due in some degree to the lRor with which the vacation mania seized the Amcrlian people this year but It Is apparent ap-parent that It must also be Attributed In n considerable extent to an In- their days 1 "vunn The present year this lion of visitors , i lias been larger than eer bifore testl , tying to the Increasing Interest tlii people arc taking In those who hao In tho nasi and still are nlTordlng them , uch dollghlful occupation In their ' i ireised Interest In the peiai nulltles of I peril ips tli most inn reeling (Inures In tho American world of letters t-or-tunnui) tur tin atgiiisur of the pros-I pros-I ent day and the gem rations to come, I Massachusetts and no other state wherein these shrines are to b founl have been at some pains to preserve, them from the destructive hand ot time, and there thiy stand today practically prac-tically as they did several scoro years ago Inquistlonalily ib serving tho first place of linport.ini i to tho visitor Is tho old home of I'm raon The picture here presented Is copied from n recent church It represents the homo as It looks today |