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��breasting the waves and sporting in the billows. To the south of Boar's Head extends the ITamitton beach, made famous by the pen of John G. Whittier. The beach is hard and wide, and affords a pleasant drive or promenade, where one is very near the restless waves. Shel- tered by a reef off Boar's Head is a safe anchorage for boats in the sum- mer-time, and a landing at the base of the cliff". One Capt. Nudd, a mariner bold, keeps a fishing-yacht anchored in this haven, and for a consideration will take passengers to the fishing-grounds, to the neighbor- ing l^irbors, to a trip to sea, or to a season of sea-sickness.

After an eventful day, the weary ouest at Boar's Head Hotel is sure of a comfortable bed and a good night's rest. At least he will have the bene- fit of pure air, cool and refreshing during the most sultry summer weather. Here the valetudinarian can receive all the advantages of an ocean voyage, with none of the dis- comforts and annoyances attendant on going to sea. Anchored in Mr. Dumas's office, or parlor, or recep- tion-room, one could very easily ride out a terrible storm, and only suffer from his sympathy for those less happily situated.

The gentleman who for many years has owned and conducted the Boar's Head Hotel, Col. StebbinsH. Dumas, is a veteran landlord, having been mine host so many years the present generation has lost all record of his origin or when he first embarked in the hotel business. He looks about fifty years of age. He has the ideal manners of a typical landlord, is genial, and tries to make his

��whole company feel at home, each feeling like a favored guest. So many years of his life having been devoted to keeping a hotel, of course his circle .of acquaintance is very large, and i)erhaps no man in New Hampshire is more widely known. At one time he was landlord of the Phenix Hotel in the city of Concord. One thing is certain, Mr. Dumas knows how to keep a hotel. It may be the privilege of the readers of the Gkanite Monthly, at sotbc time in the near future, to know more [of him : for the present we must |leave him and revert to his hotel. We neglected to mention prices. They are very reasonable, varying from $10 per week to twice that sum, accord- ing to the size and location of the room. There is, by the way, not an unsightly nor an uncomfortable room in any of the four stories of the house. Mr. Dumas is assured, even at this early date, of a good season's busi- ness this summer, so many have already siijnified their intention of visiting him this year. Mr. Baker will, in all probability, be the clerk this season, and if so, will help sus- tain the reputation the hotel already enjoys.

��Any one who has either of the first four volumes of the Granite Monthly, bound or unbound, may exchange with the publisher for later volumes, or for advance subscriptions to the magazine. The earlv volumes are en- tirely out of print.

��So few of the later volumes, V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX remain, that those needino- them to fill their sets will do well to order now.

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