Edward Everett, the present American minister to Great Britain, is distinguished as an accomplished scholar, a graceful and eloquent public speaker, and an able statesman. He was for several years a member of the national Congress, and afterwards was for three successive terms Governor of Massachusetts, his native State. He is said to be an accurate Greek scholar. His translation of the Greek Grammar of Buttman was used at the institution where he was educatedthe venerable Harvard,' as it is called by its sons: and two centuries of existence in a young country' may warrant the term. Mr. Everett's literary and historical discourses and orations on various public occasions were collected in a volume a few years since. His literary acquirements are extensive, * and few public men have obtained, more generally, the respect of all parties.

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Daniel Webster, the ex-Senator and Secretary of State, is frequently confounded in England with Noah Webster the philologist. Mr. Webster has long held a prominent rank among American statesmen. His style of oratory is massive, clear, and forcible, appealing to reason and good sense, rather than to feeling and passion; and it is much aided by his remarkably impressive and commanding personal appearance. His speeches and forensic arguments (for he is also eminent at the bar) have been collected in three volumes,† and justly place him in a high literary rank, as well as that of a statesman. Many of them are on occasional and local topics, but the eighth edition' on

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* He has occasionally written poetry-his Dirge of Alaric and Santa Croce are often quoted.

+ By a publisher. Mr. W. has not sought an author's fame.

Edward Everett, the present American minister to Great Britain, is distinguished as an accomplished scholar, a graceful and eloquent public speaker, and an able statesman. He was for several years a member of the national Congress, and afterwards was for three successive terms Governor of Massachusetts, his native State. He is said to be an accurate Greek scholar. His translation of the Greek Grammar of Buttman was used at the institution where he was educatedthe venerable Harvard,' as it is called by its sons: and two centuries of existence in a young country' may warrant the term. Mr. Everett's literary and historical discourses and orations on various public occasions were collected in a volume a few years since. His literary acquirements are extensive, * and few public men have obtained, more generally, the respect of all parties.

Daniel Webster, the ex-Senator and Secretary of State, is frequently confounded in England with Noah Webster the philologist. Mr. Webster has long held a prominent rank among American statesmen. His style of oratory is massive, clear, and forcible, appealing to reason and good sense, rather than to feeling and passion; and it is much aided by his remarkably impressive and commanding personal appearance. His speeches and forensic arguments (for he is also eminent at the bar) have been collected in three volumes,† and justly place him in a high literary rank, as well as that of a statesman. Many of them are on occasional and local topics, but the eighth edition' on

* He has occasionally written poetry-his Dirge of Alaric and Santa Croce are often quoted.

By a publisher. Mr. W. has not sought an author's fame.

the title page exhibits some sign of their general interest, and enduring vitality.

George Bancroft, the historian, resides in Boston. He was the first to put into English some of the historical treatises of the German professor Heeren.* His History of the United States' has been prepared with elaborate care, from original authorities and unpublished documents; and the style, though perhaps rather stately and Gibbonish, is worthy of the subject. As yet it has only narrated the colonial history: the revolution and later times remain to be described; and it may be said, that then, for the first time, will the American history have been fairly and authentically told.

Jared Sparks, the able and industrious editor of numerous important contributions to American history and biography, is now professor of history in Harvard university. Dr. Sparks has published altogether, chiefly from materials before un-edited, more than sixty different volumes, several of which are original biographies. The twelve volumes of Washington's writings were selected from 200 folio volumes of manuscripts.

William H. Prescott, the historian of 'Ferdinand and Isabella,' is a resident of Boston. His father, an eminent and highly-respected jurist, died a few weeks since; his grandfather was a leading officer of the American army at Bunker Hill, in 1775. Thus it appears the impression of many in England, that the historian and the eminent banker of Lombardstreet are the same person, is somewhat erroneous.

* One or two of these were reprinted at Oxford, minus the translator's name.