Romantic Days in Old Boston: The Story of the City and of Its People During the Nineteenth Century

xix, 411 pp. Deep teal boards with gilt titles on spine, cream titles on front board with gilt decor of Boston, top edge gilt. With illustrations. CONTENTS: Foreword; The Moulding of a City; Brook Farm: An Essay in Socialism; The Real Zenobia; When the Slave Was a Hero; Wendell Phillips: Agitator; Theodore Parker and His Music Hall Pulpit; Boston's Share in the Irrepressible Conflict; The Old Boston Theatres and Their Stars; Some Artists and Musicians Who Made the City Famous; Social Queens and the World They Ruled; The Old Time Hostelries and Their Stages; The Great Boston Fire; Some Famous Visitors and the Way We Entertained Them; Boston as a Literary Centre; Index.