_Traits of the Tea Party: Published by Harper & Brothers._
This is a neat little duodecimo of 265 pages, including an Appendix,
and is full of rich interest over and above what the subject of the
volume is capable of exciting. In Boston it is very natural that the
veteran Hewes should be regarded with the highest sentiments of
veneration and affection. He is too intimately and conspicuously
connected with that city's chivalric records not to be esteemed a
hero--and such indeed he is--a veritable hero. Of the Tea Party he is
the oldest--but _not_ the only survivor. From the book before us we
learn the names of nine others, still living, who bore a part in the
drama. They are as follows--Henry Purkitt, Peter Slater, Isaac
Simpson, Jonathan Hunnewell, John Hooton, William Pierce, ----
Mcintosh, Samuel Sprague, and John Prince.
Reminiscences such as the present cannot be too frequently laid
before the public. _More than any thing else_ do they illustrate that
which can be properly called the History of our Revolution--and in so
doing how vastly important do they appear to the entire cause of
civil liberty? As the worthies of those great days are sinking, one
by one, from among us, the value of what is known about them, and
especially of what may be known through their memories, is increasing
in a rapidly augmenting ratio. Let us treasure up while we may, the
recollections which are so valuable now, and which will be more than
invaluable hereafter.