Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

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Bulfinch belonged to a well educated Bostonian merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.