Download or read book A New England Boyhood (Classic Reprint) written by Edward Everett Hale and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A New England Boyhood A charming writer, Miss Lucy Larcom, published a few years ago a charming book called "A New England Girlhood." She described in it her own early life, first in Beverly, opposite Salem on the seashore of Massachusetts, with its gardens and beaches and fishing boats; then in Lowell in its infant days, with its river and waterfalls and Arcadian cotton factories. Mr. Horace Scudder, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was as much attracted by this pleasant book as the rest of us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.