FOREWORD 



The author wishes to express his thanks to the 

 editors of the Boston Evening Transcript and the 

 Atlantic Monthly for permission to reprint in this 

 volume matter originally contributed to the columns 

 of that paper and magazine; and to A. S. Burbank 

 of Plymouth, I. Chester Horton, and Howard S. 

 Adams for permission to reproduce various illus- 

 trations. 



