And lovelier beauties fill Belinda's place.
Here future hands shall Goldsmith's village rear,
And his tired traveller rest his wanderings here.
Hodeirah's son shall search our western plain,
And our own Gertrude visit us again.

Then Branksome's towers o'er Hudson's streams be built,

And Marmion's blood on Monmouth's field be spilt. Fitz-James's horn Niagara's echoes wake,

And Katrine's lady skim o'er Erie's lake.

Haste happy times, when through these wide domains,

Shall sound the concert of harmonious strains:
Through all the clime the softening notes be spread,
Sung in each grove and in each hamlet read.
Fair maids shall sigh, and youthful heroes glow,
At songs of valor and at tales of woe;
While the rapt poet strikes, along his lyre,
The virgin's beauty and the warrior's fire.
Thus each successive age surpass the old,
With happier bards to hail it, than foretold;
While poesy's star shall, like the circling sun,
Its orbit finish, where it first begun.

There is also a tribute to the Buckminsters, then recently deceased.

Everett was tutor at Harvard till 1814. It was his intention at first to have pursued the study of the law; but by the influence of his nobleminded friend Buckminster, he turned his attention to divinity while tutor, and on the death of that fine scholar and divine in 1813, succeeded to his ministry in the Brattle Street Church. This was at the early age of twenty. A memorial of his youthful divinity studies is preserved in the learned argument of his Defence of Christianity against the work of George B. English,* entitled the Grounds of Christianity examined by comparing the New Testament with the Old, which he published in Boston in 1814.

The same year having been invited to the new professorship of Greek literature in Harvard, with the privilege of further qualifying himself for its duties by a visit to Europe, he accepted the appoint

*The career of English deserves a note of admiration and warning. He was a native of Boston, a graduate of Harvard of 1807, where he was distinguished for his quickness and love of learning. He then studied law, became a theoretical reformer and disputant, and neglected its practice. From law he turned to theology, and while exhausting the Hebrew learning of Cambridge, contracted doubts of the Chris ian dispensation, and published his work attacking the New Testament while he supported the Old. This was the book answered by Everett. Before the reply reached him he was in Egypt, having in the meantime edited a country Western newspaper, then sought employment in the United States Marine Corps, and reaching Egypt in that capacity attached himself to the government of Ibrahim Pacha. He replied to Everett's book. He had an old taste for military affairs, and his new sovereign being then at war with the Abyssinians he projected a system of artillery service. He revived, in an experiment, the ancient scythe war chariot; but it was destroyed in an encounter with a stone wall in Cairo. His employment of camels in dragging cannon succeeded better, and he appears to have acquitted himself with success as General of Artillery in the War. He was cheated, however, out of his promised reward, and next became a kind of attaché of the American Government in the Levant. In 1827 he returned home and sought favor at Washington, which he did not live long to prosecute, dying the following year in that city. Samuel L. Knapp, who was his friend, has written of him with kindness, and composed an ingenious epitaph recounting the incidents of his life. skill in languages was remarkable. An anecdote is told of his deceiving a Turkish ambassador at Marseilles, who doubted whether any foreigner could acquire his language, into the belief that he was a Turk. At Washington he once surprised a Cherokee delegation by remonstrating with them in their language against some harshness they had expressed in their own tongue. He had one of those minds which is wounded by its own sharpness. Knapp has a long article on him in his American Biography.

His

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ment and embarked for England-proceeding, on his arrival, to the University of Gottingen, where he passed more than two years chiefly engaged in study of the modern German and ancient classical literature. In the winter of 1817-18 he was in Paris, where he acquired a knowledge of the modern Greek language. In the spring he visited London, Cambridge, and Oxford, and became acquainted with many of the leading men of the country, enjoying the friendship of Scott, Byron, Jeffrey, Campbell, Mackintosh, Romilly, and Davy. Returning to the continent he divided the winter between Florence, Rome, and Naples, and made an extended journey to the East, in company with his friend Gen. Lyman, the following season, visiting Athens and Constantinople; crossing the Balkan, he travelled through Wallachia and Hungary to Vienna. Returning to America in 1819, he at once engaged in the duties of his Professorship, to which he added the charge of the North American Review, which he conducted till 1824. A distinguishing feature of his editorship was his earnest defence of American manners and institutions, against the attacks or animadversions of British travellers. His reviews of Miss Martineau, of Faux, of Schmidt and Gale, at this time, and afterwards his spirited article in the number for January, 1833, on Prince Puckler Muskau and Mrs. Trollope, attracted general attention. Sluggish readers who like the irritation of abuse and the excitement of a good stirring reply to warm their faculties, were stimulated. The national humor was gratified, while in the quiet walks of scholarship there was abundant provision for learned tastes in the editor's frequent articles on classical, scientific, and foreign continental topics. Mr. Everett, while editor, frequently wrote several articles for the same number of the review.t

In August, 1824, Everett acquired great reputation in a field of oratory and literature in which he has since been a leader, by the delivery of his

Theodore Lyman (1792-1849) was a native of Boston. He was a man of education, and of political influence, having been elected to the state legislature and the mayoralty of Boston. He was active as a philanthropist. He published several works-"Political State of Italy," 1820; "Three Weeks in Paris," after a visit to that city; an account of the Hartford Convention, favorable to that body, in 1823; the " Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations." 2 vols., 8vo. 1826. Loring's Boston Orators, pp. 891-2.

The following among others were his contributions at this time:

Edward Everett.

Phi Beta Kappa address on "The Circumstances Favorable to the Progress of Literature in America." These he found in the political organization of the country; the extent and uniformity of one great language; the rapid increase of population with the correspondent development of civilization. This combination of the philosophy of history with social and political statistics is a favorite method with Mr. Everett, who under various forms and at different times has often pursued the outlines of this his first mixed political and academic discourse. The oration closed with an eloquent address to Lafayette, who was present on the occasion. Ten years later, in 1834, at the request of the young men of Boston he delivered his admirable eulogy in memory of the departed hero, tracing his distinguished career, with a patriotic fondness.

The occasional orations and addresses of Everett have become the permanent memorials of numerous important occasions of public interest from 1824 to the present time. There are historical orations pronounced at Plymouth, Concord, Charlestown, Lexington, and sites of colonial and revolutionary fame; eulogies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, John Quincy Adams; anniversary discourses on the settlements of towns; addresses at agricultural gatherings and before inechanics' associations, and on social and philanthropic occasions. In all these the particular topic is handled at once with ease and dignity; there are similar traces of the scholar and the traveller; of the patriot and philosopher; with those personal reminiscences, original anecdotes, or "points" of observation interspersed, which relieve the attention of the audience, and coupled with the orator's skilful and polished delivery add so greatly to the pleasure of the hour.

In 1825 Mr. Everett took his seat in Congress as representative from Middlesex. For ten years he sat in the House of Representatives, bearing a prominent part in the debates, and for four successive years, from 1835 to 1839, was chosen

Governor of Massachusetts. In the election for 1840 he lost the office by a single vote. He visited Europe again that year, and in 1841 was appointed Minister to England. Entering upon this new sphere of duty he was engaged in several international negotiations of delicacy and importance, as the arrangement of the North-Eastern Boundary, the affairs of McLeod and the Creolewhich he conducted with signal ability. During this residence in England he delivered a number of occasional addresses at agricultural and other celebrations, which are preserved in the collection of his orations. The honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law was conferred upon him by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

In 1846, after his return to America, he was elected President of Harvard College, a position which he held till 1849. In November, 1852, he again entered public life, succeeding Daniel Webster as Secretary of State on the appointment of President Fillmore. He was chosen Senator in 1853, but was compelled by ill health to resign the following year.

Mr. Everett now passes his time in retirement, in the enjoyment of his ample friendships among the authors of his extensive library and the living actors of the times. He is an efficient member of the historical and other literary societies of the country, and his pen is ready for the service of every liberal interest. He is said to be employed in the composition of a Treatise on the Law of Nations. One of the topics which of late years specially engaged his attention was the introductory memoir prefixed to the edition of the works of Webster, of whom he is one of the literary exe

cutors.

In 1822 Mr. Everett married Charlotte Gray, a daughter of the Hon. Peter C. Brooks, an elaborate memoir of whom, written by his son-in-law, has recently appeared.*

BENEFITS TO AMERICA OF ONE NATIONAL LITERATURE.t

This necessary connexion between the extent of a country and its intellectual progress, was, it is true, of more importance in antiquity than it is at the present day, because, at that period of the world, owing to political causes, on which we have not time to dwell, there was, upon the whole, but one civilized and cultivated people, at a time, upon the stage; and the mind of one nation found no sympathy, and derived no aid from the mind of another. Art and refinement followed in the train of political ascendency, from the East to Greece, and from Greece to Rome, declining in one region as they rose in another. In the modern world, a combination of political, intellectual, and even mechanical causes (for the art of printing is among the most powerful of them), has produced an extension of the highest civilization over a large family of states, existing contemporaneously in Europe and America. circumstance might seem to mould the civilized portion of mankind into one republic of letters, and make it, comparatively, a matter of indifference to any individual mind, whether its lot was cast in a small or a large, a weak or a powerful, state. It must be freely admitted, that this is, to some extent, the case; and it is one of the great advantages of

This

*Art. on Everett by Felton, N. A. Rev. Ixxi. Loring's Hundred Boston Orators. Men of the Time.

+ From the Phi Beta Kappa Address on American Literature.

the modern over the ancient civilization. And yet a singular fatality immediately presents itself, to neutralize, in a great degree, the beneficial effects of this enlarged and diffused civilization on the progress of letters in any single state. It is true, that, instead of one sole country, as in antiquity,, where the arts and refinements find a home, there are, in modern Europe, seven or eight, equally entitled to the general name of cultivated nations, and in each of which some minds of the first order have appeared. And yet, by the multiplication of languages, the powerful effect of international sympathy on the progress of letters has been greatly impaired. The muses of Shakespeare and Milton, of Camoens, of Lope de Vega and Calderon, of Corneille and Racine, of Dante and Tasso, of Goethe and Schiller, are comparative strangers to each other. Certainly it is not intended that these illustrious minds are unknown beyond the limits of the lands in which they were trained, and to which they spoke. But who is ignorant that not one of them finds a full and hearty response from any other people but his own, and that their writings must be, to some extent, a sealed book, except to those who read them in the mother tongue? There are other languages besides those alluded to, in which the works of a great writer would be still more effectually locked up. How few, even of well-educated foreigners, know anything of the literature of the Hungarian, Sclavonian, or Scandinavian races! to say nothing of the languages of the East.

This evil is so great and obvious, that for nearly two centuries after the revival of letters, the Latin language was adopted, as a matter of course, by the scholars of Europe, in works intended for general circulation. We see men like Luther, Calvin, Erasmus, Bacon, Grotius, and Leibnitz, who could scarce have written a line without exciting the admiration of their countrymen, driven to the use of a tongue which none but the learned could understand. For the sake of addressing the scholars of other countries, these great men, and others like them, in many of their writings, were willing to cut themselves off from all sympathy with the mass of those whom, as patriots, they must have wished most to instruct. In works of pure science and learned criticism, this is of the less consequence; for, being independent of sentiment, it matters less how remote from real life the symbols by which their ideas are conveyed. But, when we see a writer, like Milton, who, as much as any other that ever lived, was a master of the music of his native tongue; who, besides all the beauty of conception and imagery, knew better than most other men how to breathe forth his thoughts and images,

In notes with many a winding bout
Of linked sweetness long drawn out,
With wanton heed and giddy cunning,
The melting voice through mazes running,
Untwisting all the chains that tie

The hidden soul of harmony;

when we see a master of English eloquence, thus gifted, choosing a dead language,-the dialect of the closet, a tongue without an echo from the hearts of the people, as the vehicle of his defence of that people's rights; asserting the cause of Englishmen in the language, as it may be truly called, of Cicero; we can only measure the incongruity, by reflecting what Cicero would himself have thought and felt, if compelled to defend the cause of Roman freedom, not in the language of the Roman citizen, but in that of the Grecian rhetorician, or the Punic merchant. And yet, Milton could not choose but employ this language; for he felt that in this, and this alone, he could speak the word "with which all Europe rang from side to side."

There is little doubt that the prevalence of the Latin language among modern scholars, was a great cause, not only of the slow progress of letters among the people at large, but of the stiffness and constraint of the vernacular style of most scholars themselves, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. That the reformation in religion advanced with such rapidity is, in no small degree, to be attributed to the translations of the Scriptures and the use of liturgies in the modern tongues. The preservation, in legal acts, in England, of a foreign language,-I will not offend the majesty of Rome by calling it Latin, -down to so late a period as 1730, may be one reason why reform in the law did not keep pace with the progress of reform in some other departments. With the establishment of popular institutions under Cromwell, among various other legal improvements, many of which were speedily adopted by our plaindealing forefathers, the records of the law were ordered to be kept in English; "a novelty," says the learned commentator on the English laws, "which, at the restoration, was no longer continued, practisers having found it very difficult to express themselves so concisely or significantly in any other language but Latin."

Nor are the other remedies for the evil of a multiplicity of tongues more efficacious. Something, of course, is done by translations, and something by the study of foreign languages. But that no effectual transfusion of the higher literature of a country can take place in the way of translation, need not be urged; and it is a remark of one of the few who could have courage to make such a remark, Madame de Stael, that it is impossible fully to comprehend the literature of a foreign tongue. The general preference, given till lately, to Young's Night Thoughts and Ossian, over all the other English poets, in many parts of the continent of Europe, confirms the justice of this observation. It is unnecessary, however, to repeat, that it is not intended to apply to works of exact science, or merely popular information.

There is, indeed, an influence of exalted genius, coëxtensive with the earth. Something of its power will be felt, in spite of the obstacles of different languages, remote regions, and other times. The minds of Dante and of Shakespeare have, no doubt, by indirect influence, affected thousands who never read a line of either. But the true empire of genius, its Sovereign sway, must be at home, and over the hearts of kindred men. A charm, which nothing can borrow, and for which there is no substitute, dwells in the simple sound of our mother tongue. Not analysed, nor reasoned upon, it unites the simplest recollections of early life with the maturest conceptions of the understanding. The heart is willing to open all its avenues to the language in which its infantile caprices were soothed; and, by the curious efficacy of the principle of association, it is this echo from the faint dawn of intelligence, which gives to eloquence much of its manly power, and to poetry much of its divine charm.

What a noble prospect presents itself, in this way, for the circulation of thought and sentiment in our country! Instead of that multiplicity of dialect, by which mental communication and sympathy between different nations are restrained in the Old World, a continually expanding realm is opened to American intellect by the extension of one language over so large a portion of the Continent. The enginery of the press is here, for the first time, brought to bear with all its mighty power on the minds and hearts of men, in exchanging intelligence, and circu

See a number of them in Lord Somers's Tracts, vol. i + Blackstone's Commentaries, iii. 422.

lating opinions, unchecked by diversity of language, over an empire more extensive than the whole of Europe.

And this community of language, all important as it is, is but a part of the manifold brotherhood, which already unites the growing millions of America, with a most powerful influence on literary culture. In Europe, the work of international alienation, which begins in diversity of language, is consummated by diversity of race, institutions, and national prejudices. In crossing the principal rivers, channels, and mountains, in that quarter of the world, you are met, not only by new tongues, but by new forms of government, new associations of ancestry, new, and often hostile objects of national pride and attachment. While, on the other hand, throughout the vast regions included within the li nits of our republic, not only the same language but the same national government, the same laws and manners, and common ancestral associations prevail. Mankind will here exist and act in a kindred mass, such as was scarcely ever before congregated on the earth's surface. What would be the effect on the intellectual state of Europe, at the present day, were all her nations and tribes amalgamated into one vast empire, speaking the same tongue, united into one political system, and that a free one, and opening one broad, unobstructed pathway, for the interchange of thought and feeling, from Lisbon to Archangel? If effects must bear a constant proportion to their causes; if the energy of thought is to be commensurate with the masses which prompt it, and the masses it must penetrate; if eloquence is to grow in fervor with the weight of the interests it is to pleal, and the grandeur of the assemblies it addresses; in a word, if the faculties of the human mind are capable of tension and achievement altogether indefinite;

Nil actum reputans, dum quid superesset agendum; then it is not too much to say, that a new era will open on the intellectual world, in the fulfilment of our country's prospects.

THE MEN AND DEEDS OF THE REVOLUTION.*

Often as it has been repeated, it will bear another repetition; it never ought to be omitted in the history of constitutional liberty; it ought especially to be repeated this day;-the various addresses, petitions, and appeals, the correspondence, the resolutions, the legislative and popular debates, from 1764 to the declaration of independence, present a maturity of political wisdom, a strength of argument, a gravity of style, a manly eloquence, and a moral courage, of which unquestionably the modern world affords no other example. This meed of praise, substantially accorded at the time by Lord Chatham in the British Parliament, may well be repeated by

us.

For most of the venerated men to whom it is paid, it is but a pious tribute to departed worth. The Lees and the Henrys, Otis, Quincy, Warren, and Samuel Adams, the men who spoke those words of thrilling power, which raised and directed the storm of resistance, and rang like the voice of fate across the Atlantic, are beyond the reach of our praise. To most of them it was granted to witness some of the fruits of their labors-such fruits as revolutions do not often bear. Others departed at an untimely hour, or nobly fell in the onset; too soon for this country, too soon for every thing but their own undying fame. But all are not gone; some still survive among us, to hail the jubi

From the Principles of the American Constitution, delirered at Cambridge, July 4, 1826.

lee of the independence they declared. Go back, fellow-citizens, to that day, when Jefferson and Adams composed the sub-committee who reported the Declaration of Independence. Think of the mingled sensations of that proud but anxious day, compared to the joy of this. What reward, what crown, what treasure, could the world and all its kingdoms afford, compared with the honor and happiness of having been united in that commission, and living to see its most wavering hopes turned into glorious reality! Venerable men, you have outlived the dark days which followed your more than heroic deed; you have outlived your own strenuous contention, who should stand first among the people whose liberty you had vindicated! You have lived to bear to each other the respect which the nation bears to you both; and each has been so happy as to exchange the honorable name of the leader of a party, for that more honorable one, the Father of his Country. While this our tribute of respect, on the jubilee of our independence, is paid to the grey hairs of the venerable survivor in our neighborhood (Adams), let it not less heartily be sped to him (Jefferson), whose hand traced the lines of that sacred charter, which, to the end of time, has made this day illustrious. And is an empty profession of respect all that we owe to the man who can show the original draught of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States of America, in his own handwriting? Ought not a title-deed like this to become the acquisition of the nation? Ought it not to be laid up in the public archives? Ought not the price at which it is bought to be a provision for the ease and comfort of the old age of him who drew it? Ought not he who, at the age of thirty, declared the independence of his country, at the age of eighty, to be secured by his country in the enjoyment of his own?

Nor would we, on the return of this eventful day, forget the men who, when the conflict of council was over, stood forward in that of arms. Yet let me not, by faintly endeavoring to sketch, do deep injustice to the story of their exploits. The efforts of a life would scarce suffice to draw this picture, in all its astonishing incidents, in all its mingled colors of sublimity and woe, of agony and triumph. But the age of commemoration is at hand. The voice of our fathers' blood begins to cry to us from beneath the soil which it moistened. Time is bringing forward, in their proper relief, the men and the deeds of that high-souled day. The generation of contemporary worthies is gone; the crowd of the unsignalized great and good disappears; and the leaders in war, as well as the cabinet, are seen, in fancy's eye, to take their stations on the mount of remembrance. They come from the embattled cliffs of Abraham; they start from the heaving sods of Bunker's Hill: they gather from the blazing lines of Saratoga and Yorktown, from the blood-dyed waters of the Brandywine, from the dreary snows of Valley Forge, and all the hard-fought fields of the war! With all their wounds and all their honors, they rise and plead with us for their brethren who survive; and command us, if indeed we cherish the memory of those who bled in our cause, to show our gratitude, not by sounding words, but by stretching out the strong arm of the country's prosperity, to help the veteran survivors gently down to their graves!

HENRY WARE-HENRY WARE Jr.-JOHN WARE -WILLIAM WARE.

HENRY WARE, the descendant in the fourth generation from Robert Ware, one of the early settlers of the town of Dedham in 1644, and the son of John Ware, a farmer, was born at Sherburne, Massa

chusetts, April 1, 1764. He was the youngest but one of a family of ten children, three of whom served in the Revolutionary war. He received a few weeks' schooling in the winter months, and was afterwards prepared for Harvard College by the village clergyman, the Rev. Elijah Brown, his elder brothers combining their means for his support during his studies. After completing his course in 1785, he took charge of the town school of Cambridge, in 1787 was ordained a clergyman, and in the same year received and accepted a call to the charge of the Congregational church of Hingham. He remained in this place, attaining high eminence as a preacher, for eighteen years, when he received the appointment of Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard. His election was a triumph of the Unitarian over the orthodox portion of the Congregationalists, and consequently excited much opposition from the latter. Dr. Ware took no part in the controversy which arose in this matter until the year 1820, when he published Letters to Trinitarians and Calvinists, occasioned by Dr. Woods' Letters to Unitarians. This was replied to by Dr. Woods in 1821. Dr. Ware put forth a second publication on the subject in 1822, and a Postscript in the year following.

He continued in the discharge of his professorship, largely extending its scope and efficiency, until 1840, when, in consequence of impaired sight, he resigned, and devoted himself entirely to the Divinity School founded in connexion with his professorship in 1826. An unsuccessful operation on his eyes soon after deprived him almost entirely of sight. He employed two years in carrying through the press a selection from one of his courses of lectures published in 1842 with the title of An Inquiry into the Foundation, Evidences, and Truths of Religion. The labor connected with this work impaired his previously enfeebled health, and the remaining years of his life were passed in retirement. He died July 12, 1845.

Dr. Ware married in 1789, and had a numerous family, his descendants (including the husbands and wives of his children) assembling on the twentieth of August, 1835, at his residence to the number of fifty.

HENRY WARE, Jr., the fifth child and eldest son of the Rev. Henry Ware, was born at Hingham, April 21, 1794. He was educated under the charge of his cousin Ashur Ware, and passed the year previous to his admission to Harvard at the Phillips Academy, Andover. He employed a portion of one of the winters of his four years of college life in teaching school, as a discipline in his own education. At the close of his course in 1812 he became an assistant in the Academy at Exeter, where he passed two years. He entered the profession of divinity, and became pastor of the Second Church in Boston in 1816. He remained in this place for thirteen years with well deserved success as a preacher, when he was compelled to offer his resignation in consequence of ill health. In place of its acceptance a colleague was chosen to assist in the discharge of his duties. He about the same time accepted the Parkman Professorship of Pulpit Eloquence in the Divinity School of Harvard University. Before entering upon the duties of his office he passed seventeen months in Europe. On his return he resigned his pas‐

toral charge and devoted himself entirely to his professorship, until forced, in 1842, by ill health to resign its duties. During this period he published in 1832 The Life of the Saviour, as the first volume of the Sunday Library, a series projected by him with the design of affording attractive and appropriate reading for young persons on that day. Three other volumes by different writers subsequently appeared, when the series was discontinued. In 1834 he prepared a Memoir of the Rev. Dr. Parker, of Portsmouth, to accompany a volume of sermons from the pen of that divine, who had recently died; and in 1835 a selection from the writings of Dr. Priestley, with a notice of his life and character. He also prepared a number of lectures and addresses delivered on various occasions, and numerous poems and essays for periodicals connected with his denomination. He died September 22, 1843. A selection from his writings by his friend and successor in his pastoral charge, the Rev. Chandler Robbins, was published in four volumes 12mo. in 1846. The first of these contains The Recollections of Jotham Anderson, Minister of the Gospel, a tale drawn in part from his personal experiences, with a few descriptive sketches, a number of poems prepared for recitation before the Phi Beta Kappa and other societies; The Feast of Tabernacles, a poem for music, prepared for an Oratorio; with several hymns and occasional verses suggested by the associations of travel or the incidents of life.

The second volume contains his Biographical Essays, a few addresses and controversial publications. The two remaining volumes are occupied by sermons.

These varied compositions are all well sustained in their appropriate spheres. Dr. Ware thought and wrote with energy, tempered by the care and reserve of the scholar. We select from the poetical portion of these volumes a sonnet.

SONNET ON THE COMPLETION OF NOYES'S TRANSLATION OF THE PROPHETS. November, 1887.

In rural life, by Jordan's fertile bed,

The holy prophets learned of yore to sing; The sacred ointment bathed a ploughman's head, The shepherd boy became the minstrel king. And he who to our later ears would bring The deep, rich fervors of their ancient lays, Should dwell apart from man's too public ways, And quaff pure thoughts from Nature's quiet spring.

Thus hath he chose his lot, whom city pride

And college hall might well desire to claim; With sainted seers communing side by side,

And freshly honoring their illustrious name. He hears them in the field at eventide,

And what their spirit speaks his lucid words proclaim.

A Memoir of the Life of Henry Ware, Jr., by his brother, JOHN WARE, M.D., appeared in 1846 in two duodecimo volumes. It contains a selection from his letters, and presents a pleasant and satisfactory view of his life. Dr. Ware, the author of this work, has published a valuable series of medical lectures, and is also the author of a poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard University, August 28, 1817. The topic was Novel-writing. He comments first on the Lydia Languish passion of young ladies for the