PREFACE

cannot  refrain  from  acknowledging  my  special  obligations ­
  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.  Seligman,
  Columbia  University;  the  late  Thomas  G.  Shearman ­
  ;  Professor  George  Ray  Wicker,  Dartmouth  College;
and  John  Buckley  Willis,  A  M.,  for  their  invaluable
criticism^  and  encouragement.
C.  B.  Fillebrown.
Boston,  January,  igog.