eerfield, Mass. 193

Reverend Stephen Williams 204

Old Corner Bookstore, Site of the
Hutchinson House, Boston, Mass. 214

Old Witch House, Salem, Mass. 225

Rebecca Nourse House, Danvers,
Mass. 229

Red Horse Tavern, Sudbury, Mass. 242

Governor Wentworth House, Portsmouth,
N. H. 246

Fairbanks House, Dedham, Mass. 260

Edes House, Birthplace of Professor
Morse, Charlestown, Mass. 264

Oval Parlour, Fay House, Cambridge,
Mass. 286

Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Mass. 296

Fuller House, Cambridgeport, Mass. 312

Old Manse, Concord, Mass. 324

Townsend House, Salem, Mass. 342

Old Oaken Bucket House, Scituate,
Mass. 359

Whittier's Birthplace, East Haverhill,
Mass. 380

THE ROMANCE OF OLD NEW ENGLAND ROOFTREES

THE HEIR OF SWIFT'S VANESSA

Nowhere in the annals of our history is recorded an odder phase of
curious fortune than that by which Bishop Berkeley, of Cloyne, was
enabled early in the eighteenth century to sail o'erseas to Newport,
Rhode Island, there to build (in 1729) the beautiful old place,
Whitehall, which is still standing. Hundreds of interested visitors
drive every summer to the old house, to take a cup of tea, to muse on
the strange story with which the ancient dwelling is connected, and to
pay the meed of respectful memory to the eminent philosopher who there
lived and wrote.

The poet Pope once assigned to this bishop "every virtue under heaven,"
and this high reputation a study of the man's character faithfully
confirms. As a student at Dublin University, George Berkeley won many
friends, because of his handsome face and lovable nature, and many
honours by reason of his brilliancy in mathematics. Later he became a
fellow of Trinity C