Adams, Charles Francis Jr. Series of articles promoting railroad construction.

North American Review. Adams writes, “[Railroads] brought to Boston the full current of modern city life – turning the large New England town into a metropolis, if a provincial one. . . Boston became the counting house, as it were – the daily business exchange – of a vast concourse of active men having homes in every neighboring town within a limit of thirty miles.” But in one of the articles, he finds “[Boston suffers from a] lack of perception, a want of foresight, an absence of enterprise, and a superabundance of timidity, in sad contrast with the great promise of an earlier and brighter day.”