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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Sylvester Baxter (1850–1927)

Baxter, Sylvester. An American journalist and magazinist; born at West Yarmouth, MA, Feb. 6, 1850; died in 1927. Attached to the Boston Herald, he was prominent in pushing the metropolitan park system and advocating a “Greater Boston.” He wrote ‘The Cruise of a Land Yacht’; ‘The Quest of the Holy Grail’ (1904); ‘Old Marblehead’ (1906).