CHAPTER LVII.-FITZ-GREENE HALLECK-1795-1867. I.-Biographical. 1. Mr. Halleck was born in Guilford, Connecticut, and was descended, on his mother's side, from John Eliot, "the Apostle of the Indians." He was employed, first, in a New York banking-house, and afterwards as private secretary to John Jacob Astor. In his literary career he was associated with William Cullen Bryant and Joseph Rodman Drake, the latter of whom he joined in posing satirical and society verses under the sobriquet "Croker and Company." His earlier years were passed among the wits of New York, with whom he was a great favorite, while the latter part of his life was spent at his native place in a retirement broken by no effort of his muse except a poem entitled Young America, published in 1864. 2. "I have my own way," remarked Halleck's life-long friend, Mr. Bryant, "of accounting for his literary silence in the latter half of his life. One of the resemblances which he bore to Horace consisted in the length of time for which he kept his poems by him, that he might give them the last and happiest touches. Having composed his poems without committing them to paper, and retaining them in his faithful memory, he revised them in the same manner, murmuring them to himself in his solitary moments, recovering the enthusiasm with which they were first conceived, and in this state of mind heightening the beauty of the thought or of the expression." 3. Mr. Halleck belongs to the school of Pope in musical rhythm, and in clearness and condensation of style, but he allowed himself the metrical irregularities of the modern romantic poets. He wrote a social satire called Fanny, onceived in the manner and measure of Byron's Don Juan. During the Greek struggle for independence, Halleck visited Europe, of which we have a reminiscence in an ode to Burns, and in Alnwick Castle, published in 1827. The same volume contained one of the most martial lyrics in the language, celebrating the surprise of a Turkish camp by two brothers, one of whom pressed the Pasha to complete rout, while the other, Marco Bozzaris, in the hour of victory, died of his wounds, exclaiming, "Could a Suliote leader die a nobler death?" This celebrated lyric, the principal portion of which we give here, has been translated into modern Greek. II.-Marco Bozzaris. 1. At midnight, in his guarded tent, In dreams, through camp and court, he bore In dreams his song of triumph heard; 2. At midnight, in the forest shades, There had the Persian's thousands stood, And now there breathed that haunted air As quick, as far as they. 3. An hour passed on-the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentries shriek, "To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greek!” "Strike!-till the last armed foc expires; 4. They fought like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered;-but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won, Like flowers at set of sun. 5. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! With banquet song and dance, and wine; And thou art terrible :-the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, Of agony, are thine. 6. But to the hero, when his sword Of sky and stars to prisoned men; 7. Bozzaris! with the storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, We tell thy doom without a sigh; For thou art Freedom's now, and Fame's,- That were not born to die. The Suliotes, divided into about thirty tribes or clans, were warlike Greeks who, in the seventeenth century, fled from the tyranny of the Turks and took possession of the Suli mountains and the adjoining valleys. The night-attack here referred to was made August 19, 1823. CHAPTER LVIII.-MISCELLANEOUS. The Book of Proverbs. From "Mosaics of Bible History." 1. The object of the Book of Proverbs, as expressed by the author himself in the opening chapter, is, "to know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.” 2. An able critic says, "The Book of Proverbs has, in all ages, been regarded as a great storehouse of practical wisdom. The early fathers were accustomed to call it 'allsufficing' wisdom; and modern writers have been equally filled with admiration at the profound knowledge of human nature displayed in it, its accurate delineations of character, and the wonderful richness and appropriateness of its instructions. Truly, in all points of wisdom, public and private, we may accommodate to the Royal Preacher his own words in another of his works:-'What can the man say that cometh after the king? Even that which hath been said already.' 3. "A proverb once heard remains fixed in the memory. Its brevity, its appositeness, often aided by antithesis, not only insure its remembrance, but, very probably, its recurrence to the mind at the very time when its warning voice may be most needed. It utters in a tone of friendly admonition, of gentle remonstrance, of stern reproof, or of vehement denunciation, its wholesome lesson in the ear of the tried, the tempted, and the guilty."-Dr. Kitto. 4. As to the style of the Book of Proverbs, we find it especially marked by those characteristics which distinguish the poetry of the Hebrews from their prose compositions. Thus, parallel passages are constantly occurring, |