The romantic story of the Mayflower pilgrims, and its place in the life of to-day

THE ROMANTIC STORY of the MAYFLOWER PILGRIMS
AND ITS PLACE IN THE LIFE OF TO-DAY
High ideals in the conduct of life are what survive, and that is why the Pilgrim Narrative stands forth in the pages of every history as one of the great events of the time. —Senator Lodge, at the dedication of the Pilgrim Memorial Monument at Provincetown, August 5th 1910 .
Photograph by A. S. Burbank, Plymouth From the Painting by W. F. Halsall The Mayflower in Plymouth Harbour
BY A. C. ADDISON
AUTHOR OF OLD BOSTON: ITS PURITAN SONS AND PILGRIM SHRINES, ETC.
WITH NUMEROUS ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON L. C. PAGE & COMPANY MDCCCCXI
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) ALL RIGHTS RESERVED FIRST IMPRESSION, SEPTEMBER, 1911 THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS·NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A
THE PUBLISHERS WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE COURTESY OF MR. A. S. BURBANK, OF PLYMOUTH, MASS., IN AUTHORIZING THEIR USE OF HIS PHOTOGRAPHS, REPRODUCTIONS OF WHICH FORM A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THIS BOOK
By a strange yet happy coincidence, on the very day the writer of these lines sat silent in a Pilgrim cell at Boston—the Lincolnshire town where the Pilgrims were imprisoned in their first attempt to flee their native country—pondering on the past and inscribing his humble lines to the New World pioneers, the President of the American Republic was at Provincetown, Massachusetts, dedicating a giant monument to the planters of New Plymouth, the last of the many memorials erected to them. The date was the fifth of August, 1910. President Taft in his address at the commemoration ceremonies declared very truly that the purpose which prompted the Pilgrims' progress and the spirit which animated them furnish the United States to-day with the highest ideals of moral life and political citizenship. Three years before, another American President, Mr. Roosevelt, at the cornerstone laying of this monument, enlarged on the character of their achievement, and in ringing words proclaimed its immensity and world-wide significance.