Respectfully dedicated to
the Memory of the late
HON JAMES
RUSSELL LOWELL
the perusal of whose
famous poem
"THE COURTIN"
supplied the inspiration
that led to the writing
of this book.




AUTHOR'S PREFACE.


QUINCY ADAMS SAWYER'S only title was plain "Mr." His ancestors were
tradesmen, merchants, lawyers, politicians, and Presidents. He, too, was
proud of his honored ancestry, and I have endeavored in this book to
have him live up to an ideal personification of gentlemanly qualities
for which the New England standard should be fully as high as that of
Old England; in fact, I see no reason why the heroes of American novels,
barring the single matter of hereditary titles, should not compare
favorably as regards gentlemanly attributes with their English cousins
across the seas. C.F.P.

GRAY CHAMBERS,
BOSTON, October, 1902.