Statesmen Series). Boston, 1883. Houghton Mifflin Company.

This is the best single-volume life of Webster.

Norman Hapgood, Daniel Webster (in the Beacon Biographies). Boston, 1899. Small, Maynard & Co. Charles Lanman, The Private Life of Daniel Webster. New York, 1852. Harper & Brothers.

Peter Harvey, Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster. Boston, 1877. Little, Brown & Co. Interesting but not wholly trustworthy.

-S. P. Lyman, Life and Memorials of Daniel Webster. New York, 1853. D. Appleton & Co.

These memorials were first published in the New York Times.

Henry N. Hudson, A Discourse Delivered on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster. Boston, 1882. Ginn & Co.

Carl Schurz, Daniel Webster, in Library of the World's Best Literature, page 15,725.

An excellent, short, impartial account of Webster's career as an orator and statesman.

Rufus Choate, A Discourse Commemorative of Daniel Webster. Boston, 1853. James Monroe & Co.

Delivered at Dartmouth College, July 27, 1853.

- E. P. Whipple, The Great Speeches and Debates of Daniel Webster. Boston, 1879. Little, Brown & Co. Contains an essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Prose Style.

George S. Hilliard (Editor), A Memorial of Daniel Webster from the City of Boston. Boston, 1853. Little, Brown & Co.

-George Ticknor Curtis, The Last Years of Daniel Webster. New York, 1878. D. Appleton & Co.

Contains "Webster: an Ode," by W. C. Wilkinson. T. H. Cummings (Editor), The Webster Centennial. Boston, 1883. Published by the Webster Historical Society.

Contains the proceedings of the Webster Historical Society at Marshfield, Mass., October 12, 1882, with an account of other celebrations on the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Webster.

John Bach McMaster, Daniel Webster.

1902. The Century Co.

New York,

Everett P. Wheeler, Daniel Webster: the Expounder of the Constitution. New York, 1905. G. P. Putnam's

Sons.

Charles F. Richardson, Daniel Webster for Young Americans, with essay by E. P. Whipple on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Prose Style.

Magazine Articles

Harper's, VI: 85 (illustrated); LXIV: 428; North American Review, XLI: 231 (Everett on Webster's Style of Oratory); LIX: 44 (E. P. Whipple on Webster as an Author); CIV: 65 (by James Parton); American Quarterly Review, IX: 420 (by George Ticknor); XXIV: 709 (by Mellen Chamberlain); Nineteenth Century, XXIV: 262 (by Goldwin Smith); U. S. Literary Gazette, 2: 327 (August 1, 1825. Review of the Bunker Hill Oration); Southern Literary Messenger, Ix: 749, x: 25. (Both articles are on the Bunker Hill Oration.)

XI. EDITIONS OF WEBSTER'S WORKS

Works. 6 vols.

Boston, 1851. Little, Brown & Co. The first volume contains a Biographical Memoir of Daniel Webster, by Edward Everett.

The text of the oration in this volume is taken, by the courteous permission of Little, Brown & Co., from the six-volume edition.

Writings and Speeches. National Edition. 18 vols. (Illustrated with portraits and plates.) Boston, 1903. Little, Brown & Co.

Private Correspondence. Edited by Fletcher Webster. Boston, 1857. Little, Brown & Co.

The First Bunker Hill Oration was published by Cummings, Hilliard & Co., of Boston, a few days after it was delivered.

XII. REFERENCES ON THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL

- Justin Winsor, Reader's Handbook of the American Revolution. Boston, 1880. Houghton Mifflin Co.

This book (pages 35-59) gives the best list of references on the Battle of Bunker Hill.

-Richard Frothingham, Jr., History of the Siege of Boston, Boston, 1849. Little, Brown & Co.

This book (Chapter V) gives the best detailed account of the Battle, with a large map of Charlestown in 1775, and a plan of the Action at Bunker Hill; also a "Plan of the Town of Boston with the Intrenchments, &c. of His Majestys Forces in 1775."

The author quotes (p. 204) reflections on the Battle of Bunker Hill contained in the North American Review for October, 1818, "understood to be from the pen of Hon. Daniel Webster." Pages 337-356 give a history and description of Bunker Hill Monument. The best descriptions of the Battle are included among the letters of provincial officers and soldiers in the Appendix. Colonel Prescott's own account, in a letter dated August 25, 1775, and addressed to John Adams, is here printed. Frothingham's own description is one of the most reliable, depending, as it does, mainly on contemporary records.

John Fiske, The American Revolution, 2 vols. Boston, 1891. Houghton Mifflin Co.

The first three chapters deal with the events leading to the Battle. Pages 136-146 describe the Battle. A briefer account is found in Fiske's The War of Independence. Boston, 1889. Houghton Mifflin Co.

Charles P. Emmons, Sketches of Bunker Hill Battle and Monument: with Illustrative Documents. Charlestown, 1843.

-Henry B. Carrington, Battles of the American Revolution. New York, 1876. A. S. Barnes & Co.

Pages 92-116 give historical and military criticism with topographical illustration.

C. H. Van Tyne, The American Revolution. New York, 1905. Harper & Brothers.

Vol. IX, Chapter II, of The American Nation; A History.

A story of the Battle in verse is given by Oliver Wendell Holmes in his Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle.

XIII. OTHER HISTORICAL REFERENCES

The Address contains numerous historical references, among them the following: discoverer of America, Plymouth, twenty-four states (in 1825), burning of Charlestown, William Prescott, Israel Putnam, John Stark, John Brooks, James Reed, Seth Pomeroy, Ebenezer Bridge, Joseph Warren, Trenton, Monmouth, Yorktown, Camden, Bennington, Saratoga, acts for altering the Government, Salem, Continental Congress, Congress of Massachusetts, Lexington and Concord, Josiah Quincy, Jr., Lafayette (“one who hears me now").

The present edition does not attempt to supply adequate historical annotation, partly because the student will profit much more by tracing these references for himself, and partly because no reasonable amount of notes can take the place of the better United States histories that are readily available. The same is true of the historical references in Washington's Address.

XIV. QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES ON THE FIRST BUNKER

HILL ORATION

1. What evidence is there in the different tones of the several parts of the address that the speaker had studied his audience?

2. Barrett Wendell says of the passage beginning “ Venerable Men," "However impressive you may find such work as this, you can hardly avoid feeling it to be laboriously artificial; and yet its artificiality has a ring of genuineness. It comes very near bombast, but it is not quite bombastic." Comment upon the justice of this criticism. Read also the quotation from Everett in the Notes on this passage. Could this criticism apply as justly to Washington's Farewell Address?

3. In the notes on Webster's Prose Style, read the criticism of Goldwin Smith, and consider to what extent the Bunker Hill oration tends to prove the criticism sound or unsound.

4. What are the seven or eight main topics of the Oration? What are the sub-topics under each main topic? 5. Contrast the prose style of Webster with that of Washington.

6. Judged by Webster's own conception of eloquence, as set forth in his own words in the Introduction, Part VII, what can you say of the First Bunker Hill Oration? Of Washington's Farewell Address?

7. Read an occasional address delivered within the past twenty years. (See Baker's Forms of Public Address, or any other collection.) Contrast the modern speech with Webster's. Contrast it with Washington's.

8. The only American specimen of commemorative oratory that equals the First Bunker Hill Oration in effectiveness is Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. We here give the entire address:

"Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon