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storian. One of the striking things in this connection is the rise of New York as a centre for such historians. While Boston gloried in the possession of Sparks, Palfrey, Hildreth, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman, New York produced a group of small testimony to the cultivation of our cosmopolitan capital. In no wise accidentally, as in large measure is to be said of Boston at a later period, was Philadelphia our chief centre of publication as the Republic began its political career. In thert, of Philadelphia, issued two or three plays; but in general the press of that city reflected a staid psychology, while Boston contented itself with the Puritan tenor of The Messiah, Night thoughts, and The day of Doom, a tenor which was not to be so has an interesting discussion of the beginnings of the vogue for Americana. Moreover, evidence is not clear as to when Boston, for the second time, began to lead, though we may say probably some time in the early forties. During the prolific pe