=The Riverside Press=
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS
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... _I always think of her as of one who, hearing New England accused
of being a bleak land without beauty, passes confidently over the
snow, and by the gray rock, and past the dark fir tree, to a southern
bank, and there, brushing away the decayed leaves, triumphantly shows
to the faultfinder a spray of the trailing arbutus. And I should like,
for my own part, to add this: that the fragrant, retiring, exquisite
flower, which I think she would say is the symbol of New England
virtue, is the symbol also of her own modest and delightful art._
From THE ART OF MISS JEWETT, by Charles
Miner Thompson, in the _Atlantic_ for October, 1904