American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . W. L. TAYLOR. Chapter TN one of Bostons most attractive suburbs lies Parley Vale, so named bySamuel G. Goodrich, whose home it was, and who, under the nom de plumeof Peter Parley, was widely known to the readers, and especially thejuvenile ones, of many years ago. The boys and girls of to-day knownot Peter Parley, but few authors have surpassed him in quantityof production and in contemporary popularity; for he wrote sometwo hundred books, mostly for young people, and of them severalmillions in all have be
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . W. L. TAYLOR. Chapter TN one of Bostons most attractive suburbs lies Parley Vale, so named bySamuel G. Goodrich, whose home it was, and who, under the nom de plumeof Peter Parley, was widely known to the readers, and especially thejuvenile ones, of many years ago. The boys and girls of to-day knownot Peter Parley, but few authors have surpassed him in quantityof production and in contemporary popularity; for he wrote sometwo hundred books, mostly for young people, and of them severalmillions in all have been sold. Mr. Goodrich was also a publisher,and one of liberality and taste, who employed the best American authors,artists, and engravers of his day; and it seems appropriate that amongthe pleasant homes of Parley Vale (for the old writers estate passedinto other hands, and is now divided, though it still retains much of itssecluded beauty), should be that of William Ladd Taylor, one of our mostsuccessful illustrators. Here, on a sloping hillside, he has lately builthimself a picturesque house, surrounded
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