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Rh, show how the city is watered and lighted. Beneath the streets, paved, macadamized with broken granite, or rolled, but always kept in scrupulous repair, there is an unseen factor which contributes to the health of the city,—a system of sewers very nearly perfect. The fire-department is thoroughly drilled and equipped, and from the central station responds promptly to the telegraphic alarm from every section of the precinct. The schools are a pride and honor to the city. The buildings are substantial, appropriate, and of pleasing architecture; and the teachers are carefully selected, well paid, and retained as long as efficient, unless tempted away by superior inducements.

On the hill is the county jail,—the home of the high-sheriff of the county. Near the new cemetery is the enclosure of the Concord base-ball club. On the plains on the east side are the fair-grounds, lately leased to the State as a field for the annual muster of the State militia. Up towards Prospect Hill is the lot being converted into a public park, by a generous lady of the city,—Mrs. Nathaniel White. Out on the Hopkinton road, by the grand lot chosen by President Pierce as the site for a mansion,—which he never built,—by the Bradley Monument which commemorates the Indian massacre in colonial days, is St. Paul School, an institution which renders Concord celebrated throughout the length of our land. It has grown to its present proportions within the last thirty years, under its first principal. Rev. Dr. Henry A. Coit. The grounds of the school are most charmingly situated on either bank of a little river, which in places broadens into beautiful lakes, and consist of several hundred acres of lawn and wood-land, play-grounds and garden. There is an exquisite chapel, to which is soon to be added an imposing

church edifice, one of the most beautiful in New England; a schoolhouse, a gymnasium, a rectory, an infirmary, a farm-house; buildings where are dormitories for the various forms or classes, and cottages scattered about for teachers and assistants. When an outlying