. The history of Boscawen and Webster [] from 1733 to 1878 . boredearnestly to bring about the nomination and election of the heroof New Orleans; and the triumph of the party, in 1828, pavedthe way for Mr. Greenes future political success. He was appointed post-master of Boston in 1829, and occupiedthat official position until the accession of Gen. Harrison to thepresidency, when he was succeeded by Mr. George Wm. Gordon;and although this was one of the fii-st public removals of the newadministration, yet one of the last measures of President Tylerwas to reinstate Mr. Greene in the same of
. The history of Boscawen and Webster [] from 1733 to 1878 . boredearnestly to bring about the nomination and election of the heroof New Orleans; and the triumph of the party, in 1828, pavedthe way for Mr. Greenes future political success. He was appointed post-master of Boston in 1829, and occupiedthat official position until the accession of Gen. Harrison to thepresidency, when he was succeeded by Mr. George Wm. Gordon;and although this was one of the fii-st public removals of the newadministration, yet one of the last measures of President Tylerwas to reinstate Mr. Greene in the same office, which he occupieduntil after the election of Zachary Taylor, in 1849. Mr. Greenehad the reputation of conducting this department to the entire ap-proval of the national executive, and, by his urbane and concilia-tory deportment, to the satisfaction of the public in Boston. While thus absorbed in official and editorial duties, he foundtime to acquire the French, Italian, and German languages. TheFrench was taken up without much difficulty, as was also the. iyVo^Ph^yy^^-^^^^e^^ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. 387 Italian; and in a few weeks he was able to read tliem. He pub-lished, in 1836, a history of Italy, translated by himself from theItalian; and subsequently, as a birth-day present to his niece,he translated Undine from the German into the Italian. Thiswork was read by Signer Monte, at that time professor ofItalian at Harvard college, Avho pronounced it admirably done,and requiring very little alteration to be ready for publication. In 1836, at the suggestion of a friend, he began German,purchasing a dictionary, a grammai-, and a set of Van der Veldesworks. Taking them home, he sat down in the evening, and be-gan with the title-page. The first word was die, which, onreferring to the dictionary, he found to be the definite article tlie. He wrote down the word, and went on to the next, whichwas icieder tat(fer. He turned to the dictionary, but couldnot find it. Eecollecting that
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