770 PREFACE THE wiseacres in the field of books are fond of saying will you Here, then, against a background of reform in various directions a series of biographical studies is offered. History and biography are mingled, after no set formula, but in the hope that each will add something to the vitality and value of the other. To bring the treatment of each topic within 618415 the reasonable compass of a single chapter much selection and elimination have been required. The sources to which these methods have been applied may be scanned by the curious and the ambitious in the lists at the further end of the volume. If after considering the whole matter a reader wishes to inscribe on the title-page the subtitle, "Studies in American Idealism," there will be no protest from the author. He does not deceive himself with the belief that "come-outers" and their idealistic pursuits are held in any special favor at the present moment. There is indeed a popular opinion to the effect that if the reformers of the past century had let things alone we should have been better off in many ways. But this is merely an "if of history." The counter-if of a civilization without causes or champions would provide the speculative with quite as much food for thought. It is impossible to enumerate the many persons whose counsel at one point and another has been sought and gratefully followed in the preparation of this volume. It is equally impossible to omit a special word of gratitude for constant helpfulness from the Librarian and staff of that blessed focus of teeming shelves and quiet alcoves, the Boston Athenæum. M. A. DEW. H. BOSTON III THE LONG DRIVE FOR TEMPERANCE With the Help of Frances E. Willard V AMERICAN LABOR 157 PHILLIPS BROOKS ILLUSTRATIONS Frontispiece 6 CLARA BARTON, 1867. TITLE-PAGE OF THE BOOK WHICH BROUGHT THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD STATUE OF PHILLIPS BROOKS BY BELA PRATT VOICES AGAINST INTEMPERANCE FROM THE A TEMPERANCE BROADSIDE SIGNED BY THREE JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JO DAVIDSON, SCULP- MR. AND MRS. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER ARRIV- SAMUEL GOMPERS, FROM An Autobiography of A FEMINIST TITLE-PAGE, 1804 - AN ADVANCE 197 |