appear to be taken up for the homes of the great and the wealthy. One sightly eminence, in the immediate vicinity of Boston, is occupied by a very peculiar building. It is no less noticeable for its commanding position than for its peculiar style of architecture. It can be seen for miles away, and the stranger upon the train not unfrequently asks what the castellated-looking building may be. If the person of whom the question is asked be a citizen of Boston, the answer is that it is the residence of the Honorable Donald Kent, one of Boston's greatest lawyers.

The structure is of stone, with a broad, square tower, with two wings which border upon the gothic style of architecture. It really has the appearance of having been built at different periods of time, with a generation or so intervening. Such is not the case, however. Mr. Kent conceived the idea of erecting a building after the exact design of the Chateau Vieux, and of arranging the interior precisely the same. And, with that view, he sent his architect to France to study up the old castle, and the result is the counterpart upon the highlands, overlooking the city of Boston and the surrounding country for many miles. From the top of the tower nearly thirty towns and villages may be seen, with the smoke of their thousand tall chimneys, mingling with the clouds. The site was weil selected, and the structure eminently fitted to the sightly elevation it occupies. There the stranger finds a welcome, and the needy is not turned away empty handed. It is known far and near as the

Chateau.

Mrs. Ivers has been allotted the room corresponding with the one in which she was born, in the old chateau in France. In the east wing is the reception room and the library, over which are the magnificent sleeping rooms of Mr. and Mrs. Kent, with the nursery adjoining. They have found a place for every picture, as well as for the furniture, which they collected while in Europe. Articles of vertu and bric a brac are scattered all over the place.

The choicest flowers and shrubbery ornament the grounds, and rare exotics fill the conservatories, which every spring are taken out and transferred to the lawn and garden, so that to the stranger visiting the place in summer, it has the appearance of a tropical garden.

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