PREFACE 
cannot refrain from acknowledging my special obliga 
tions to the Hon. Charles Francis Adams; Professor 
F. Spencer Baldwin, Boston University; Professor 
Charles J. Bullock, Harvard University; the Rt. Rev. 
William Byrne, D. D., thirty years Vicar-General 
of Archbishop Williams, of Boston; Professor Thomas 
N. Carver, Harvaid University; Professor Henry R. 
Seager, Columbia University; Professor E. R. A. Selig- 
man, Columbia University; the late Thomas G. Shear 
man ; Professor George Ray Wicker, Dartmouth College; 
and John Buckley Willis, A M., for their invaluable 
criticism^ and encouragement. 
C. B. Fillebrown. 
Boston, January, igog.