The following papers originally appeared in the _Century_, the _Atlantic
Monthly_, the _Galaxy_ Magazine, in that of Lippincott, and in the _New
York Tribune_ and _The Nation_. The four last chapters in the book,
which were the earliest published, can now have (in some slight degree)
only the value of history. The lapse of thirteen years will have brought
many changes to Saratoga, Newport, Quebec, and Niagara.