362 GEORGE BANCROFT. 



Case. This was published in 1886, under the title of ''A Plea 

 for the Constitution of the United States of America, wounded 

 in the House of its Guardians." 



Allibone gives a list of his miscellaneous publications. The 

 Annual Report of the American Historical Association for 1889 

 gives a list of his historical works, including papers communicated 

 to historical societies. Still another list of his publications will 

 be found in Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 



The social position which Mr. Bancroft held when lie returned 

 from Germany to this country was enviable. His friendships 

 comprehended the great men of two hemispheres for half a century. 

 Learned societies at home and abroad had elected him to active and 

 honorary membership. He bore honorary degrees from American, 

 English, and German universities. A partial list of these socie- 

 ties and degrees occupies nearly half a column in the Quinquen- 

 nial Catalogue of Harvard University. The Senate of the United 

 States extended to him the unprecedented honor of free access to 

 the iloor of their chamber. His society was eagerly sought both 

 at Washington and at Newport, and it required all the restraints 

 of his methodical habits to preserve strength for the work still 

 before him. Towards the end of his life the anniversaries of 

 his birthday Avere made much of by friends. Flowers, messages, 

 and congratulations were showered upon him. October 3, 1887, 

 Browning cabled him as follows : — 



" Bancroft, the message-bearing wire 

 Which flashes my all-hail to-day 

 Moves slower than the heart's desire 

 That what hand pens tongue's self might say." 



He took great pleasure in the cultivation of roses; and the *' George 

 Bancroft " in the catalogues of rosarians bears witness to the 

 recognition of this taste on the part of horticulturists. He was 

 fond, especially during the latter i)art of his life, of riding; and 

 visitors to Washington or Newport felt that they had missed one 

 of the sights of the place if they had failed to see the slight, 

 erect form of the historian, crowned with his snow-white hair and 

 beard, as he took his daily exercise on horseback. He was grateful 

 for the opportunities afforded him at Exeter, where he went to 

 school, and founded there a scholai"shi]i. At Harvard he founded 

 a fellowship which he named, after his old teacher, the "John 

 Thornton Kirkland Fellowship." In honor of his parents, he 



