1808; 8.  Review of the Works of Fisher Ames, 1809; 9.  Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory, two volumes, 1810; 10.  Report on Weights and Measures, 1821; 11.  Oration at Washington, 1821; 12.  Duplicate Letters; the Fisheries and the Mississippi, 1822; 13.  Oration to the citizens of Quincy, 1831; 14.  Oration on the Death of James Monroe, 1831; 15.  Dermot McMorrogh, or the Conquest of Ireland, 1832; 16.  Letters to Edward Livingston, on Free Masonry, 1833; 17.  Letters to William L. Stone, on the entered apprentice’s oath, 1833; 18.  Oration on the Life and Character of Lafayette, l835; 19.  Oration on the Life and Character of James Madison, 1836; 20.  The Characters of Shakspeare, 1837; 21.  Oration delivered at Newburyport, 1837; 22.  Letters to his Constituents of the Twelfth Congressional District of Massachusetts, 1837; 23.  The Jubilee of the Constitution, 1839; 24.  A Discourse on Education, delivered at Braintree, 1840; 25.  An Address at the Observatory, Cincinnati, 1843.  Among the unpublished works of Mr. Adams, besides his Diary, which extends over half a century, and would probably make some two dozen stout octavos, are Memoirs of the earlier Public and Private Life of John Adams, second President of the United States, in three volumes; Reports and Speeches on Public Affairs; Poems including two new cantos of Dermot McMorrogh, a Translation of Oberon and numerous Essays and Discourses.”]

No man was more familiar with modern history, with diplomacy and international law, and the politics of America and Europe for the last two or three centuries.

In other departments he appeared equally at home.  His acquaintance was familiar with the classics, and several modern languages.  In oratory, rhetoric, and the various departments of belles lettres, his attainments were of more than an ordinary character.  His commentaries on Desdemona, and others of Shakspeare’s characters, show that he was no mean critic, in the highest walks of literature, and in all that pertains to human character.

The following interesting account of an interview with ex-President Adams, by a southern gentleman, in 1834, affords some just conceptions of the versatility of his genius, and the profoundness of his erudition:—­

“Yesterday, accompanied by my friend T., I paid a visit to the venerable ex-President, at his residence in Quincy.  A violent rain setting in as soon as we arrived, gave us from five to nine o’clock to listen to the learning of this man of books.  His residence is a plain, very plain one:  the room into which we were ushered, (the drawing-room, I suppose,) was furnished in true republican style.  It is probably of ancient construction, as I perceived two beams projecting from the low ceiling, in the manner of the beams in a ship’s cabin.  Prints commemorative of political events, and the old family portraits, hung about the room; common straw matting covered the floor, and two candlesticks, bearing sperm