This official history of the Boston Public Latin School contains a vast deal of information that will be eagerly welcomed by everyone interested in educational history or in American life and letters. There are, for instance, biographical sketches of the masters, ushers, and famous pupils, including Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Charles Bulfinch, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles W. Eliot, and many more. Other chapters consider the support of the school in the Colonial period, administration and supervision, discipline and corporal punishment, the development of curriculum, and text books of the past three centuries. The illustrations are particularly noteworthy; they reproduce report cards, broadside catalogues of students, order of exercises at the “school visitations,” various school buildings, title-pages of Colonial text books, and portraits of noted masters and students.