Edwin Doak Mead

The Old South Leaflets Edwin Doak Mead

Ol. D . SOUTH Leaflets are prepared primarily for cirr among the attendants upon the Old South Lectures for Young Peopli subjects of the Leaflets are immediately related to the subjects of the li and they are intended to supplement the lectures and stimulate hi: interest and inquiry among the young people. They are made up, for the roost part, from original papers of the periods treatetl in the lectures, in the hope to make the men and the public life of the periods more clear and real. The Old South Lectures for Young People were instituted in themer of 1S33. as a means fpromoting .1 more serious and intelligent 1lion to historical studies, especially studies, in American history among the young people of Boston. The success of the lectures has been so great as to warrant the hope that such courses may be sustained in many other cities of the country. The Old South Lectures for 1SS3, intended to be strictly upon subjects in early Massachusetts. History, but bv certain necessities -omewhnt mod. ified, wcte as follows: Governor Bradford and Governor Winthrop. by Edwin U. Mead. Plymouth, by Mrs. A. M. Diaz. Concord, by FRANK B. Sanrokn. The Town-M eeting, bv Prof. James K. Hosmek. Franklin, the Boston lluv. bv Geokiie M. TuwLE. How to Studv American History, bv Prof. G. Stan lev Hall. The Year 1777, by John Fiske. History in the Boston Streets, by Edward Everett Hale. The Leaflets prepared in connection with these lectures Consisted of (1) Cotton Mather saccount of Governor Bradford, from the Magnalia; (2) the account of the arrival of the Pilgrims at Cape Cod, from Bradford s Journal; (3) an extract from Emerson s Concord Address in 1835; (4) extracts from Emerson, Samuel A dams, De Tocqvieville and others, upon the Town-M eeting ;(5) a portion of Franklin s Autub lug rap hv ;(6 Carlyle on the Study of History ;(7) an extract from Charles Sumner soration upon L
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