Excerpt from Romantic Days in Old Boston the Story of the City and of Its People During the Nineteenth Century Much has happened to Boston during the dozen years which have elapsed since the Fore word to the first edition was printed But more much more has happened to the world. It may still be true that the anti-slavery strug gle will be the romance of American history, but the way in which the boys of Boston and of all the other cities and towns and Villages of our land were equipped for war and trans ported to Europe on the wave Of an overwhelm ing enthusiasm to make the world safe for democracy, may well constitute the romance of international history when that story shall be written in its entirety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.