"Interviews are a modern species of literature, in which the author attempts to give a fancy sketch of the known or supposed opinions of the party interviewed."

BOSTON:
A. WILLIAMS AND COMPANY,
The Corner Bookstore
1883.

Three hundred copies printed.

Copyright, 1883,
BY G. WASHINGTON WARREN.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

TO

ROBERT CHARLES WINTHROP,

THE DISTINGUISHED DESCENDANT OF

GOVERNOR JOHN WINTHROP,

A GENTLEMAN AND A SCHOLAR, A STATESMAN AND AN ORATOR,
IN WHOM THE VIRTUES OF HIS ILLUSTRIOUS ANCESTOR
ARE HAPPILY BLENDED,