Excerpt from Lenox Lenox There are many who do not care for the mountains, and there are many who do not willingly seek the sea, and to these Lenox offers a perfect mean. There is a number of other reasons for the continuance and the permanence of Le nox, but it is safe to say that its first cause was, or that its first causes were, the changing country, the woods with the frequent, fragrant clumps of pine, and the sky across which the clouds drifted so serenely day after day. Of Newport, of Bar Harbor, of the North Shore, and of Lenox, the last is the only one without the sea, and this, of course, is the chief characteristic in which it differs from the others, and, with such a difference, the dissimilarity must be very great. Where the sea is there is unrest, and at all the others it is impossible to escape the consciousness of the ever-changing, all - absorbing ocean. But at Lenox that disturbing element is wholly absent, and there is, above all else, a sense of peace and calm that is missing at the first three. Indeed, it may be written that the first and Lem the lasting impression made by Lenox is one of quietness and rest, and there are other reasons for this besides the absence of the luring and troubling waste of waters. Lenox, almost more than any of the other three places, seems to have the air of having always been. Newport may be as old, but the Newport that is now known - the characteristic Newport seems much newer, for Lenox in some mysterious way has gathered up some thing of the old life, and has carried it on and made it a part of the new, and this feeling of continuation certainly tends to make it the reposeful abiding place it is. Lenox, as Mr. Henry James says in his Life of Hawthorne, has suffered the process of lionization, but it has more gently or more skillfully shaded into what it is now than the rest which have left more behind. One does not think of it as having been discovered as Bar Har bor was discovered, well within the mem ory of even the middle - aged diner-out. 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.