EVERETT, ALEXANDER HILL Ameri can author and diplomatist, was born in Boston, Mass., on March 19, 1790. He was the son of Oliver Everett (1753-1802), a Con gregational minister in Boston, and the brother of Edward Everett. He graduated at Harvard in 1806, taking the highest honours of his year, though the youngest member of his class, and in 1807 began the study of law in the office of John Quincy Adams. In 1809 Adams was appointed minister to Russia, and Everett accompanied him as his private secretary, remaining attached to the American legation in Russia until 1811. From 1825 to 1829, during the presidency of John Quincy Adams, he was the United States minister to Spain. Everett was a member of the Massachusetts legislature in 183o-35, was president of Jefferson college in Louisiana in 1842-44, and was appointed commissioner of the United States to China in 1845. He died on May 29, 1847 at Canton, China. Everett is known rather as a man of letters than as a diplomat. In addition to numerous articles, published chiefly in the North American Review, of which he was the editor from 1829 to 1835, he wrote : Europe, or a Gen eral Survey of the Political Situation of the Principal Powers, with Conjectures on their Future Prospects (1822), which was translated into German, French and Spanish; New Ideas on Population (1822); America, or a General Survey of the Political Situation of the Several Powers of the Western Continent, with Conjectures on their Future Prospects (1827), which was trans lated into several European languages ; a volume of Poems (1845) ; and Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (first series, 1845; second series, 1847) .