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tary or naval exploits which are not immediately connected with the defence of our sea-coast and soil.

Both were afterwards, January 23, 1824, by a vote of the body expunged from its records.

Mr. Quincy remained in the Senate until 1821, and in 1822-3 was a member of the House. In 1822 he was appointed Judge of the Municipal Court, but resigned the office on his election as Mayor of Boston in 1823. He held the office until he declined a re-election in December, 1828. The House of Industry, the House for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, the admirable market-house which bears his name, the efficient Fire Department of the city, and numerous important streets and avenues, are some of the monuments of his vigorous administration. He was to be seen throughout his mayoralty traversing the streets and lanes at daybreak on horseback, personally inspecting their condition, and in every other department of duty was equally active.

In January, 1829, Mr. Quincy, to use his own expression, was called from the "dust and clamor of the capitol" to the presidency of Harvard University. He was as much surprised at the appointment, he said, "as if he had received a call to the pastoral charge of the Old South Church." He delivered his inaugural address in Latin on the second of June, and retained the office until his resignation in 1845, his academic rule being marked by the same zeal and prosperity which had attended his civic sway. During its course debts were paid, endowments secured, buildings renovated, and the general efficiency of the ancient institution largely promoted.

Since his retirement from Harvard Mr. Quincy has not held any public office. He is often, however, called upon to preside at assemblages of his fellow-citizens, and is always ready to lend the great influence which a long life of honorable public service has added to the ancestral honors of his name in the furtherance of measures which he deems of national benefit. He is often present on occasions of public festivity, enjoying a well deserved reputation as an after dinner speaker and wit. One of his happy epigrams is recorded in the diary of the Rev. Joseph S. Buckminster.

President Nott preached in Brattle Street Church; the fullest audience ever known there, except on ordination-day. Epigram made on by Josiah Quincy. Delight and instruction have people, I wot, Who in seeing not see, and in hearing hear not.

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At a dinner given soon after the completion of the Quincy market, Judge Story gave the toast, May the fame of our honored Mayor prove as durable as the material of which the beautiful market-house is constructed." Quincy instantly responded, "That stupendous monument of the wisdom of our forefathers, the Supreme Court of the United States; In the event of a vacancy may it be raised one Story higher." The same distinguished name was used in a still happier manner at a Phi Beta Kappa dinner, after the institution of the Story Association, when Mr. Quincy proposed "The Members of the Bar; Let them rise as high as they may they can never rise higher than one Story." He once remarked of his college, "May it, like the royal mail packets, distribute good letters over our land."

When Wirt visited Boston in 1829 he was received by Quincy, who, in the course of conversation, asked him in which college he had graduated. Wirt in a letter at the time tells the sequel. "I was obliged to admit that I had never been a student of any college. A shade of embarrassment, scarcely perceptible, just flitted across his countenance; but he recovered in an instant, and added most gracefully, upon my word you furnish a very strong argument against the utility of a college education.' Was not this neatly said, and very much in the style of Bishop Madison ?""*

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Mr. Quincy, in addition to his other public services, is the author of several important volumes. His Memoir of Josiah Quincy, Jr., published in 1825, we have already had occasion to express our obligations to in writing an account of that distinguished patriot. It is an admirable monument of filial reverence. His History of Harcard↑ has rendered a similar service to our article on that University. His Centennial Address on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement. of Boston, 1830, and History of the Boston Athenaum, with Biographical Notices of its devoted Founders are equally valuable contributions to civic and literary history.§

JOHN LATHROP,

THE son of a minister at Boston, of the same name, was born in that city in January, 1772; was a graduate of Harvard in 1789; studied law in the office of Christopher Gore; commenced the practice of the profession, and in 1797 removed to Dedham. The society of Fisher Ames and the appointment of clerk of Norfolk county did not long retain him there. He returned to Boston, and lived among the wits, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., Charles Prentiss, T and others, con

Kennedy's Memoirs of Wirt, ii. 275.

+ Cambridge, 1849.

Cambridge, 1851.

Loring's Hundred Boston Orators, pp. 258-278.

John Lathrop, 174-1816, was born in Norwich, Ct.; studied at Princeton: assisted Wheelock in his Indian school, at Lebanon: was ordained and becaine pastor of the Second Church in Boston. He published a number of ordination and occasional discourses, amongst others an Historical Discourse at the commencement of the Nineteenth Century, which are enumerated by Allen. Joseph Lathrop, another divine of the family, 1781-1821, was also born at Norwich; studied at Yale, and was pastor of the church in West Springfield, Mass. His ministerial life extended over sixty-three years. His published sermons form a large collection, a portion of which were issued in seven volumes; one of them, a posthumous publication, containing his Autobiography, a production," says Allen, "remarkable for its simplicity and candor."

Buckingham, in his Newspaper Reminiscences, has traced the career of Prentiss through a series of journals with which he was connected. He was born in 1774, the son of the Rev. Caleb Prentiss, minister of Reading, Mass.: studied at Harvard, and upon leaving college, edited, in 1795, the Rural Repository, at Leominster, Mass., a weekly paper of a literary character, and "short lived." One of his sportive effusions in this journal was a "will" in verse, written in emulation of a similar college production of the wit Biglow. The humor turns upon a custom of Harvard, of the transmission of a jackknife from the ugliest member of one senior class to the ugliest member of the next. The verses may be found in Buckingham, ii. 269. A Collection of Fugitive Essays, in Prose and Verse, was published by Prentiss at Leominster, in 1797 -a pleasant volume. When the Repository expired, Prentiss published The Political Forus at the same place; afterwards, The Washington Federalist, at Georgetown, D.C.; the AntiDemocrat at Baltimore, and in the same city a literary paper, The Child of Pallus. This was at the beginning of the century. In 1804 he visited England. In 1809 he published The Thistle, a theatrical paper of a brief existence. After 1810 he reported the Congressional proceedings at Washington, and edited the Independent American. In 1813. a Life of General Eaton from his pen was published at Brookfield. In 1817 and 1818 hə edited the Virginia Patriot, at Richmond. He died in Brim

tributing, with them, to the Federal Boston Gazette. Samuel L. Knapp, who was subsequently connected with that journal, and who has furnished a genial account of Lathrop, says, that a difference of taste led to an encounter between the young authors:-" Lathrop was modest, learned, and poetical, but had much less of the ardor of genius and the sparkling of wit than Paine, but more chastity of style and more method in his compositions and conversations. Prentiss was easy, familiar, good-natured, and poetical, and amused himself at the parade of learning in Paine, and laughed at the sentimental solemnity of Lathrop." Such contests might enliven the Boston newspapers, but they would not assist to wealth and eminence at the bar. Discouraged in this field, Lathrop, in 1799, embarked to try his fortunes in British India, where he established a school at Calcutta. Knapp relates a proposition which he made to the government there, and its reception. "In the ardor of his zeal for instructing the rising generation of Calcutta, he presented to the Governor-General, the Marquis of Wellesley, a plan of an institution at which the youths of India might receive an education, without going to England for that purpose. In an interview with his lordship, Lathrop urged, with great fervency and eloquence, the advantages that he believed would flow from a seminary well endowed and properly patronized by the government, on such a plan as he recommended; but his lordship opposed the plan, and in his decided and vehement manner replied: 'No, no, sir, India is and ever ought to be a colony of Great Britain; the seeds of independence must not be sown here. Establishing a seminary in New England at so early a period of time ha-tened your revolution half a century.' Besides his occupations as a teacher, Lathrop wrote for the Calcutta papers the Hircarrah and the Post, but he found the newspaper system under the government censorship as restricted as the educational.

He returned to America in 1819, projected a literary journal on an extensive plan," but did not carry it into execution. He then brought his stock of literary resources into use as teacher of a school in Boston; "wrote in the papers; delivered lectures on natural philosophy, and gave the public several songs and orations for festive and inasonic purposes." Tired of this unsatisfactory career he passed to the South, where he took up his residence in the District of Columbia, pursuing his old occupations as a teacher, writer, and lecturer, and securing an employment in the postoffice. He died at Georgetown. January 30, 1820.

The writings of Lathrop have never been collected. They consist of his philosophical lectures, several orations, a number of occasional poems, and one of greater scope, which he wrote on the voyage to India, and which was first published at Calcutta in 1802, and reprinted in Boston the

field, in Hampden County, Mass., Oct. 20, 1820. Buckingham adds to these items the remark-" Mr. Prentiss was a scholar, a good writer, a judicious critic; he studied no profession, and relied entirely on the exercise of his pen for support. Had he lived half a century later, he might have seen his literary offspring dressed in scarlet and gold, and died, leaving his copyright to his heirs,"

following year. This was entitled the Speech of Caunonicus, or an Indian Tradition.* It is dedicated "to his Excellency the most noble Richard, Marquis Wellesley, K.P." The author furnishes the "argument" of the poem. "Caunonicus, Sachem of the Narraghansetts, having reached his eighty-fourth year at a time a little anterior to the landing of the Pilgrins, and finding his infirmities daily increasing, assembled his people round the council fire, and previous to the act of resigning his authority to his nephew, delivered an address, in which he informed them of their nature, origin, and approaching fate." The hero is introduced with dignity, amidst the council of chiefs, at the senate fire.

At length-serene, Caunonicus arose,
The patriot Sachem of the rude domain.
He recounts the blessings of his reign:—
If aught my years have added to your store,
Of martial prowess or of useful lore,

If mine has been a mild, propitious sway,
And light your task to follow and obey,
Return to God your thanks! My time is past ;-
I sink before the cold and wintry blast.

To fertile realms I haste, Compared with which your gardens are a waste; There, in full bloom eternal Spring abides, And swarming fishes glide through azure tides.

The origin of "the Pagan Pantheon" is thus disclosed, how a spirit was placed in the sun and another in the sea, and in the fire, with a succession of river gods, when beasts and fishes were formed, and the gigantic mammoth, with whom the primeval deity has a struggle.

Creation groan'd when with laborious birth, Mammoth was born to rule his parent earth,Mammoth! I tremble while my voice recounts, His size that tower'd o'er all our misty mounts,His weight a balance for yon pine-crowned hills, On whose broad front half heaven in dew distils His motions forced the starry spheres to shake, The sea to roar-the solid land to quake. His breath a whirlwind. From his angry eye, Flash'd flames like fires that light the northern sky; The noblest river scarce supplied him drink,Nor food, the herds that grazed along its brink;— Trampling through forests would the monster pass, Breasting the stoutest oaks like blades of grass!

Creation finished, God a Sabbath kept, And twice two hundred moons profoundly slept; At length from calm and undisturbed repoe, With kind intent the sire of nature rose;Northward he bent his course, with parent care, To view his creatures and his love declare, To bless the works his wisdom erst had plann'd, And with fresh bounties fill the grateful land. Hoar Paumpagussit swell'd with conscious pride, And bore the Almighty o'er each looming tide; Sweet flowering bushes sprang where'er he trod, And groves, and vales, and mountains, hail'd their God;

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With more effulgent beams Keesuckquand shone,
And lent to night a splendor like his own.
Thus moved the deity. But vengeful wrath,
Soon gather'd awful glooms around his path,
Approaching near to Mammoth's wide domain,
He view'd the ravage of the tyrant's reign.
Not the gaunt wolf, nor cougar fierce and wild,
Escaped the tusks that all the fields despoil'd,
No beast that ranged the valley, plain or wood,
Was spared by earth's fell chief and his insatiate
brood.

Nor did just anger rest. Behold, a storm
Of sable horrors clothe the eternal's form. -
Loud thunders burst while forked lightnings dart,
And each red bolt transfix'd a Mammoth's heart,
Tall cedars crash'd beneath them falling prone,
And heaven rebellow'd with their dying groan.
So, undermined by inward fires, or time,
Some craggy mount that long has tower'd sublime,
Tumbles in ruins with tremendous sound,
And spreads a horrible destruction round;
The trembling land through all its caverns roars,
And ocean hoarsely draws his billows from the
shores.

Mammoth, meanwhile, opposed his maily hide, And shagged front, that thunderbolts defied; Celestial arms from his rough head he shook, And trampling with his hoofs, the blunted weapons broke.

At length, one shaft discharged with happier aim, Pierced his huge side and wrapp'd his bulk in flame.

Mad with the anguish of the burning wound,
With furious speed he raged along the ground,
And pass'd Ohio's billows with a bound,—
Thence, o'er Wabash and Illinois he flew,-
Deep to their beds the river gods withdrew
Affrighted nature trembled as he fled,
And God alone, continued free from dread.
Mammoth in terrors-awfully sublime,
Like some vast comet, blazing from our clime,
Impetuous rush'd. O'er Allegany's brow
He leap'd, and howling plung'd to wilds below;
There, in immortal anguish he remains,

No peace he knows;-no balm can ease his pains;
And oft his voice appals the chieftain's breast,
Like hollow thunders murmuring from the west,—
To every Sachem dreadful truths reveals,
And monarchs shudder at its solemn peals.
Such is the punishment, by righteous fate,
The dread avenger of each injured state,
Reserved for tyrant chiefs, who madly dare
Oppress the tribes committed to their care.
Almighty wrath pursues them for their deeds,-
They stab their souls in every wretch that bleeds,
The hideous wound eternal shall endure,-
Remorse, despair,-alas, what skill can cure!

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Mammoth being thus overpowered, man and woman are then brought on the scene:

There God retired, elate, from Mammoth's death,
Form'd man of oak, and quickened him with breath,
Moulding the wood according to his will,

Nine moons his plastic hands employed their skill.
Life's vital fount within the breast he plac'd,
And Reason's seat the brain's nice fabric grac'd,
Superior wisdom beaming from his face,
Proclaim'd the lord of earth and all its race.
Erect and tall the new Commander strode,
In shape and motion noble as a god.

His eye the spirit intellectual fir'd,
His ample heart no vulgar joys desir'd,

For there, though chief, unrivall'd and alone,
Had emulation fix'd her blazing throne.

Next to complete th' Eternal's glorious plan,
Sweet woman rose, the sole compeer of man,
Her voice was soft as Philomela's note,
When Evening's shades o'er flowery vallies float;
Her lips breath'd fragrance, like the breeze of morn,
And her eyes sparkled as the spangled thorn,
Ere glist'ning dews, by heat exhaled away,
Yield their mild splendors to intenser day :-
And silken skin adorn'd her waving form,
Whose glossing texture touch'd, so smooth, so
warm,

Through the thrill'd breast diffused a rapt'rous glow,

And bade the blood with amorous phrenzy flow.
She, like the skies, which gazing tribes adore,
Two beauteous orbs upon her bosom bore,
Whose charms united, bless'd continual view,
While heaven's lights singly deck'd the expansive
blue,

Giving all seasons of man's life to prove,

The bliss of constant and unfading love;
Perfect she shone, the fairest and the best-
Of all God's works the paragon confest.
This pair, the parents of our race design'd,
The solemn rites of holy wedlock joined;
From their embraces, sprang forth at a birth,
Of different sex, two more to people earth,
Thence, still proceeding, num'rous children smil'd,
And gladden'd with their sports the shady wild.
Till Paugautemisk held paternal reign,
O'er the throng'd forest and the busy plain.

An Indian legend of Oswego follows, and the poem closes with a prophecy of the coming Empire.

Lathrop's several addresses and orations were: on the Fourth of July, 1796, for the town authorities of Boston; on the same anniversary, in 1798, at Dedham; a Masonic Address at Charlestown, Mass., June 24, 1811; an Address before the Associated Instructors of Youth, in Boston and vicinity, on the First Anniversary of the Institution, August 19, 1813; Monody Sacred to the Memory of John L. Abbot, who died Oct. 17, 1814. He also published the Pocket Register and Free Mason's Anthology, in 1813.* Of his occasional verses, Knapp quotes the following

ODE FOR THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE FIRE SOCIETY.

If on the haughty warrior's brow,

Is plac'd the crown of deathless fame;
And earth's applauding lords bestow,
Their proudest titles on his name ;
Oh say, shall glory's partial hand,
Withhold the meed to pity due,
When plaintive sorrow's grateful band
For wreaths to deck their patrons sue.
A tear-enamelled chaplet weave,

Round Bowdoin's venerated urn,
Where all the patriot virtues grieve,
And votive lamps of science burn;
Sweet charity on Russell's tomb,

A shower of vernal flow'rets throws ;-
And bays of fadeless verdure bloom
O'er classic Minot's calm repose.

New England's worthies grace the pyre,
Where Belknap soar'd for ever blest!
Religion lights her hallow'd fire,

Where pious Stillman's relics rest,

Knapp's American Biography. Loring's Boston Orators,

pp. 255-7. Allen's Biog. Dict.

Why mourns the Muse with tearful eyes, While pondering o'er the roll of death? Afresh her keenest sorrows rise,

With Emerson's departed breath! Ah! Heaven again demands its own, Another fatal shaft is sped, And genius, friendship, learning, mourn Their Buckminster among the dead! To Eliot's tomb, ye Muses, bring

Fresh roses from the breathing wild, Wet with the tears of dewy Spring,

For he was virtue's gentlest child! Ye sainted spirits of the just,

Departed friends, we raise our eyes, From humbler scenes of mould'ring dust, To brighter mansions in the skies.Where faith and hope, their trials past, Shall smile in endless joy secure, And charity's blest reign shall last,

While Heaven's eternal courts endure.

ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER.

THIS head of a family eminent for its theological services in the professor's chair and the pulpit, was born in Rockbridge county, Virginia, April 17, 1772. His grandfather, an emigrant from Ireland of the Scottish race, was one of the first settlers in that region, about the year 1738-a man of courage and mental activity, who raised a company of men for military duty on the Kenhawa, and gave lessons to the young of his neighborhood at home. His son William was a trader and farmer. The early years of Archibald Alexander were passed in country associations with such education as the time and place offered as an instance of which, we may note that the future eminent divine was taught by a convict from London, who had been bought by his father at Baltimore, and turned to account in this way, as he had some Latin and Greek education, in a log school-house set up for that purpose. The name of this youth was Reardon. He enlisted in the war, and was cut down in a skirmish in North Carolina by Tarleton's men, and left for dead upon the field. Ile survived, however, to get back to his schoolkeeping.

The instructions of the Rev. William Graham and of his assistant, James Priestly, in the school near Lexington-names to be held in respect in the carly annals of American education-shaped the studies of Alexander. He had hardly, at the age of seventeen, completed them, when his father procured him an engagement as a tutor in the family of General John Posey, of the Wilderness, a hundred and forty miles from his home, across the Blue Ridge in Spotsylvania county, where he passed a year instructing the sons and a daughter in Latin, and educating himself. On his return home, he was influenced by the religious movements then taking place in the country, to think seriously of divinity-a study which he prosecuted with his preceptor Graham, reading the works of Edwards and Owen. He was licensed in 1791 at Winchester, after which he made a missionary tour through the southern counties of the state; his memoranda of which, published in his life by his son, are interesting contributions to the history of the times. In one of his journeys in 1794, he heard Patrick Henry on a jury murder case, and his testimony of his eloquence is an addition to

the many warm and seemingly extravagant eulologies collected by Wirt. In 1797, Alexander was called to the presidency of Hampden Sidney College, an institution established as a Presbyterian theological seminary, which had received its charter as a college in 1783. Samuel Stanhope Smith was its first president. Alexander occupied this office till 1801, when he visited New York and New England. His reminiscences of the journey and of the chief clergymen of the day possess distinctness and spirit. He was at Dartmouth College when Daniel Webster pronounced his Commencement speech. On his arrival at Boston, the geographer Morse was mystified by his introduction as president of "Camden" Sidney College. He had never heard of the institution, and when the error was corrected it was hardly more conplimentary, for Morse had given a melancholy account in his book of the veritable Hampden Sidney itself. Alexander met on this tour such celebrities as Samuel Hopkins, Emmons, Pre-ident Wheelock, and the magnates of Harvardand Princeton, under the presidencies of Willard and Smith. On his return to Virginia in 1802, he married Janetta Waddell, the daughter of the eloquent blind preacher, celebrated by Wirt in the British Spy-a lady whose affections he had engaged on a casual visit to her father in Louisa county, on his horseback journey from the college the previous year. This union, a very happy one, lasted during his life, bis widow surviving him a short time. In 1807, he took charge of a congregation in Philadelphia, where he remained till the organization of the Theological Seminary at Princeton by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church in 1812, when he became its first professor, with charge of the various branches of theological education, a range of duty which finally settled down, as the demands and resources of the institution increased, and he was relieved by the labors of others into a distinct professorship of pastoral and polemic theology. He was at this time forty years old, and held this position till his death, almost as long a period after, in his seventy-ninth year-an event which occurred at Princeton, October 22, 1851.

The reputation of Dr. Alexander for learning and authorship dates from his residence at Princeton. He was a thorough and accomplished student, a critic and interpreter of the Greek and Hebrew scriptures; in the latter of which he was one of the earliest American proficients. Through his later years he would read a chapter of the Old Testament daily in the original, for which he had a reverential regard, and could be heard at times chanting to himself portions of the Hebrew psalter. He held the German and Dutch Protestant divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in great estimation; and brought a large collection of them together to the library of the seminary.

He did not begin to publish, if we except several occasional sermons, till his fifty-second year, when his Brief Outline of the Evidences of the Christian Religion appeared, a work which is held in regard as a text-book in both England and America. His contributions to the Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review were thereafter frequent in articles in which he guarded and defined the principles of morals and theology. His

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Introductory Lectures on the opening of the terms of study, seventeen in number, which are still in manuscript, embrace many points of practical and speculative divinity-what may be called the moral philosophy of Divinity. One of these discourses had for its subject, The Use and Abuse of Books. In 1846, he published in a large octavo volume, a History of Colonization on the Western Coast of Africa. His History of the Israelitish Nation, from their origin to their dispersion at the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, appeared in Philadelphia in 1852. He also wrote many tracts and several biographical abridgments for the Presbyterian Board of Publication and the American Tract Society.

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As a preacher, Dr. Alexander was greatly admired. His discourses were experimental, casuistical, practical, consolatory," and are noticed as having but little of the mannerisms and phrases of any particular school. His conversational powers were very happy, and were freely exercised among his family and friends. His habits as a student kept him much among his books, so that for a great portion of his life his only exercise was in passing the few steps from his library to his lecture-room. He would get relief from one grave study in another as grave of a different turn. His personal appearance, in a piercing eye, a high forehead and delicate features, with a transparent complexion, was expressive of the refined and penetrating mind within.

Of the sons of Dr. Alexander, his biographer, Dr. James W. Alexander, the pastor of the Presbyterian Church on the Fifth Avenue, is the author of several works of value and interest. One of the earliest of these is a collection of essays, entitled the American Mechanic and Workingman, of a practical ingenious turn, in which, with good humor and good sense, the moral and intellectual capabilities of the calling are insisted upon and enlarged. He has published also a volume of sermons, entitled

Consolation; in Discourses on Select Topics, addressed to the suffering people of God; Thoughts on Family Worship, and Plain Words to a Young Communicant. His love of literature, and activity as a thinker and student, have been shown in numerous contributions to the Biblical Repertory, in various brief essays which have appeared in the Newark Daily Advertiser and The Literary World, under the title of Casariensis. As a scholar, he is one of the most exact and finished men of the day.

The "Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review,"such being its final title, is the oldest of existing American theological quarterlies, having now reached its thirty-first volume. It was begun by Professor Hodge in 1825, and has, with small intervals, remained under his able hand till the present time. It has been regarded as the accredited organ of the Westminster Calvinists and Presbyterians, and has exercised a formidable influence; but its tone in regard to Slavery has made it especially unsavory to the abolitionists. In the "British Foreign Theological Review," of Edinburgh, for 1851-2, more than a dozen of the articles republished are from the Princeton Review. many years together it was the vehicle for the most elaborate dissertations of Miller, Breckenridge, Dod, Hodge, the Alexanders, and other well known Presbyterians.

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The Rev. Albert B. Dod, D.D., was one of the most brilliant writers for this work, though he did not live to accomplish that authorship for which he was so well prepared. He was for some years professor of Mathematics in Princeton College, where he shared the intimacy and the fame of such men as Henry, now of the Smithsonian Institution, and Torrey, the great botanist of America. Dod was a man of letters as well as science, a keen metaphysician, pious divine, an eloquent preacher, a captivating converser, and a writer of equal argumentative and sarcastic power. He died unexpectedly in the spring-tide of a great reputation, in the year 1846. Some of Dr. Dod's admirable productions have been collected in a volume entitled "Princeton Essays."

Professor Joseph A. Alexander, of the Theological Seminary at Princeton, is the author of a valuable Commentary on the Psalms, following the expositionof Hengstenberg;* a Critical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; and an abridgment of the same, with a volume on Primitive Church Government.

NATURAL SCENERY SEEN BY THE YOUTH AND THE MAN.

Whether the scenery with which our senses are conversant in early life has any considerable effect on the character of the mind, is a question not easily determined. It would be easy to theorize on the subject; and formerly I indulged in many lucubra tions, which at the time seemed plausible, all tend ing to the conclusion that minds developed under the constant view and impression of grand or picturesque scenery must in vigour and fertility of imagination be greatly superior to those who spend their youth in dark alleys, or in the crowded streets of a large city, where the only objects which constantly meet the senses are stone and brick walls, and dirty and offensive gutters. The child of the mountains,

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