Excerpt from Dr. Holmes's Boston Dr. Holmes was in truth the poet-laureate of Boston. He early won the laurels which were placed on his brow by his appreciative fellow-citizens, and these he wore triumphantly until the end. And in turn he crowned Boston with literary offerings such as no other citizen has bestowed in like measure. The spirit of New England has doubtless been pre sented in prose and verse by other sons and daugh ters, but no one else has given us so much of Boston from the Bostonian point of view. 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.