ston to old Cambridge, where, it is
needless to say, I found plenty of the genuine American article that had
been the object of my quest.

After some time--in the course of which I succeeded in making myself
known to three or four of the college professors and tutors--I was told
by one of them of a gentleman who, he thought, might be able to help me
in obtaining employment. He is a man of genius and good-nature, and
through him I got really useful introductions. From this time there were
no _external_ difficulties in my way, beyond those experienced by many
other men around me who had been on the lookout for vacancies for months
before I had become one of their anxious number. But differences of
training and experience remained to constitute real and very serious
obstacles, although--and let me say it here, as I shall have plenty of
occasion to grumble further on--the chief deterring or exclusive
influence I ever suffered from in Boston or Cambridge was that of a
kindness so much in excess of my capacity to make fair returns that I
had often to flinch from accepting it. Literary and professional men in
those twin-cities come nearer, to my thinking, to Wieland's cosmopolites
(_Die Abderiten_) than any other class of people I know.

But let us to school. I may as well say at once that I never at any
time, while in the United States, commanded salaries (or incomes) equal
to some I had received in England; and I am now more than ever convinced
of the fact that England offers an unequalled field for a teacher of
ability and perseverance, always provided that he is as competent an
authority on cricket and boating as he is on Greek particles and the
working of the differential calculus. I speak, of course, simply of the
ordinary university graduate, who (like myself), not being from
patrician ranks or Mammon-blessed, must hew out a position for himself
without any aid from the patronage of influential friends or relatives.
Given a moderate amount of classical and mathematical stock in trade,
together with correct personal habits and fair capacity for imparting
instruction, and an English teacher who adds to these qualifications
some skill in the chief bodily pastimes, may go on his way in peace: he
shall have his reward. Let me add, however, that if he is a man of
ramshackle tendencies, the offices of drill-sergeant, cricket-referee
and supervisor of table-etiquette which he has to combine with his
ordinary tutorial duties wi