"Vernon, the Butcher Cumberland, Wolfe, Hawke, Prince Ferdinand, Granby, Burgoyne, Keppell, Howe, Evil and good have had their tithe of talk, And filled their sign-post then like Wellesly now." Rather should we credit it to that genuine and impassioned outburst of patriotic feeling which, having turned royalty out of doors, indignantly tossed its worthless trappings into the street after it. Not a single specimen of the old-time hostelries now remains in Boston. All is changed. The demon demolition is everywhere. Does not this very want of permanence suggest, with much force, the need of perpetuating a noted house or site by some appropriate memorial? It is true that a beginning has been made in this direction, but much more remains to be done. In this way, a great deal of curious and valuable information may be picked up in the streets, as all who run may read. It has been noticed that very few pass by such memorials without stopping to read the inscriptions. Certainly, no more popular method of teaching history could well be devised. This being done, on a liberal scale, the city would still hold its antique flavor through the records everywhere displayed on the walls of its buildings, and we should have a home application of the couplet: "Oh, but a wit can study in the streets, And raise his mind above the mob he meets." APPENDIX. BOSTON TAVERNS TO THE YEAR 1800. The =Anchor=, or =Blue Anchor=. Robert Turner, vintner, came into possession of the estate (Richard Fairbanks's) in 1652, died in 1664, and was succeeded in the business by his son John, who continued it till his own death in 1681; Turner's widow married George Monck, or Monk, who kept the _Anchor_ until his decease in 1698; his widow carried on the business till 1703, when the estate probably ceased to be a tavern. The house was destroyed in the great fire of 1711. The old and new Globe buildings stand on the site. [See communication of William R. Bagnall in _Boston Daily Globe_ of April 2, 1885.] Committees of the General Court used to meet here. (Hutchinson Coll., 345, 347.) =Admiral Vernon=, or =Vernon's Head=, corner of State Street and Merchants' Row. In 1743, Peter Faneuil's warehouse was opposite. Richard Smith kept it in 1745, Mary Bean in 1775; its sign was a portrait of the admiral. =American Coffee-House.= See _British Coffee-House_. =Black Horse=, in Prince Street, formerly Black Horse Lane, so named from the tavern as early as 1698. =Brazen-Head.= In Old Cornhill. Though not a tavern, memorable as the place where the Great Fire of 1760 originated. =Bull=, lower end of Summer Street, north side; demolished 1833 to make room "for the new street from Sea to Broad," formerly Flounder Lane, now Atlantic Avenue. It was then a very old building. Bull's Wharf and Lane named for it. =British Coffee-House=, mentioned in 1762. John Ballard kept it. Cord Cordis, in 1771.