universities. On his return, in 1822, he was appointed tutor in Greek at
Harvard. His writings at this time were a small volume of original poems,
some translations from Schiller and Goethe, and a few striking essays. Mr.
Bancroft has held numerous high political offices. In 1838 he was
appointed collector of the port at Boston; in 1845 he was made secretary
of the Navy; in 1849 he was sent as United States Minister to Great
Britain; and in 1867 he was sent in the same capacity to Prussia. The work
which has given Mr. Bancroft his great literary reputation is his "History
of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent." The
first volume appeared in 1834. Philosophical in reasoning, interesting,
terse in style, and founded on careful research, under the most favorable
advantages, the work stands alone in its sphere.

1. The evening of the fifth came on. The young moon was shining brightly
in a cloudless winter sky, and its light was increased by a new-fallen
snow. Parties of soldiers were driving about the streets, making a parade
of valor, challenging resistance, and striking the inhabitants
indiscriminately with sticks or sheathed cutlasses.

2. A band, which poured out from Murray's barracks, in Brattle Street,
armed with clubs, cutlasses, and bayonets, provoked resistance, and a fray
ensued. Ensign Maul, at the gate of the barrack yard, cried to the
soldiers: "Turn out, and I will stand by you; kill them; stick them; knock
them down; run your bayonets through them." One soldier after another
leveled a firelock, and threatened to "make a lane" through the crowd.

3. Just before nine, as an officer crossed King Street, now State Street,
a barber's lad cried after him: "There goes a mean fellow who hath not
paid my father for dressing his hair;" on which, the sentinel stationed at
the westerly end of the customhouse, on the corner of King Street and