near being
a
first-rate
novel),and
by his
Life of
Josiah
Quincy,then
a new
book,but
still
better by
his Boston
letters to
the New
York
Tribune.These
dealt
frankly,in
the old
anti-slavery
days
between
1850and
1860,with
other
persons of
distinction
in
Boston,who
did not
see the
right so
clearly as
Quincy
did,or who
at least
let their
interests
darken
them to
the
ugliness
of
slavery.Their
fault was
all the
more
comical
because it
