TO THE READER.

Copyright, 1888, byCHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSTROW’SPRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,NEW YORK.

Copyright, 1888, byCHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONSTROW’SPRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,NEW YORK.

TO THE READER.I have called this book a satire; yet have sought within that key an overtone of hope and faith. Our early generation of writers could be all optimists: for they wrote of virgin soil. But since their day has passed, our country’s first-fruits were garnered. With these we have to deal.F. J. S.Boston, November 6, 1888.

I have called this book a satire; yet have sought within that key an overtone of hope and faith. Our early generation of writers could be all optimists: for they wrote of virgin soil. But since their day has passed, our country’s first-fruits were garnered. With these we have to deal.F. J. S.Boston, November 6, 1888.

I have called this book a satire; yet have sought within that key an overtone of hope and faith. Our early generation of writers could be all optimists: for they wrote of virgin soil. But since their day has passed, our country’s first-fruits were garnered. With these we have to deal.

F. J. S.

Boston, November 6, 1888.


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