" Author of "JOHN ADAMS And Daniel WEBSTER AS SCHOOLMASTERS; WAS greatly pleased when I learned that Miss Gould had consented to write the life of Ezekiel Cheever, for I knew how careful had been her study of the career of this interesting man. She knew more of him than anyone did; and now that I have read this valuable book, I need hardly say that I am delighted with her success. I thought I knew something of Cheever myself. In one of the Prize Books, Mr. Benjamin A. Gould, the head master of the Latin School after 1816, had given a little sketch of Cheever's career; and as schoolboys in that old school we knew of his Accidence, and that he was one of the heroes of the school. I graduated at that school in 1835. The exhibition exercises of our class marked the second centennial anniversary of the school. In 1840 the Latin School Association was formed, of which I have now the honor to be President. I was the first Secretary of that Society and I edited its first catalogue. It thus became my pleasant duty to find what I then could of Cheever's life, and I like to acknowledge here the help which I received. from that distinguished historian, Mr. Samuel Francis Haven, the accomplished Librarian of the American Antiquarian Society. I say all this because it is with peculiar satisfaction, I may even say surprise, that in reading Miss Gould's book I see that she has found clues which we had not |