Note 548 — Chapter II · (continued 2)

The substance of this volume is also found in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xiv. p. 53, etc. In the same year Mr. Frothingham condensed the story of the battle into a little volume,—The Centennial: Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston, 1875). Mr. Frothingham's enthusiasm for his subject may be easily misjudged by the unsympathetic reader. P. O. Hutchinson says of the Siege: "This would be a creditable book if it were not so overloaded with boast, tall talk, and self-glorification." (Life of Governor Hutchinson, p. 11.)