KATHARINE AUGUSTA WARE; NATHANIEL GREENE; ROBERT S. COFFIN. town, Connecticut. He died August 16, 1851, at the age of fifty-four. Besides the book of travels alluded to, he published a series of Sermons and Lectures and Addresses, which were collected in a posthumous publication of his works by the Harpers in 1852. A large collection of his correspondence was also published in his Life and Letters in 1853, two volumes of Memoirs composed of the joint contributions of Dr. McClintock, the able editor of the Methodist Quarterly Review, Dr. Holdich, and other faithful friends. The academic discourses of Dr. Olin disclose a 'well trained mind, seeking constantly for the principle to test the fact, and insisting upon the development of mental discipline before the mere accumulation of knowledge. He was a sound conservative in the cause of education, distrusting many of the pretentions expedients of the day. He appreciated the study of the classics in a course of instruction. His religious discourses were of a practical character, and maintain a high rank in Christian precept. His character and teachings gave him great influence with his students. In person Dr. Olin was over six feet in height, of a large frame and broad shoulders, and a fine head. His voice was of great power and compass, while his gestures were stiff and construined. KATHARINE AUGUSTA WARE. THIS lady, the daughter of Dr. Rhodes of Quincy, Mass., and wife of Charles A. Ware, of the Navy, is the author of a volume entitled Power of the Passions, and other Poe ns, published by Pickering in London in 1842. She was born in 1797, was married in 1819, wrote occasional pogins for the papers, edited The Boer of Taste in Boston, and visiting Europe in 1839 died at Paris in 1813. She was a relative of Robert Treat Paine, and at the age of fifteen wrote some verses on his death. VOICE OF THE SEASONS. There is a voice in the western breeze, Where the spirit of love reposes. There is a voice in the S mmer gale, Which breathes among regions of bloom, It tells of hopes unblighted yet, There is a voice in the Autumn blast, There is a voice in the wintry storm, O'er all that was bright and fair; And there's a voice-a small, still voice, That comes when the storm is past; It bids the sufferer's heart rejoice, In the haven of peace at last! It tells of joys beyond the grave, And of Him who died a world to save. NATHANIEL GREENE. 255 NATHANIEL GREENE was born at Boscawen, N.H., May 20, 1797. By the death of his father, a lawyer of the town, he was thrown at the age of ten on his own exertions, and at first found occnpation in a country store. The perusal of the antobiography of Franklin inspired him with the desire to become an editor, which led him, when Isaac Hill established the New Hampshire Patriot at Concord, to offer himself as an apprentice in the printing-office. This he did on the fourth of July of that year, and was accepted. He remained two years in this mechanical pursuit, when, at the early age of fifteen, he was placed in charge, as editor, of the Concord Gazette, of which he was the sole conductor till 1814, when he becume engaged on the New Hampshire Gazette, at Portsmouth. In 1815 he removed to Haverhill, Mass., and edited the Gazette at that place. With this juvenile experience he started a new Democratic journal, The Essex Patriot, on his own account, in 1817, which he continued till he commenced The Boston Statesman in 1821, a paper which, as it grew from a semi-weekly to a triweekly and daily, vigorously supported the Democratic policy and the election of General Jackson. In 1829 he became postmaster of Boston, and disposed of his newspaper interest to his brother, the present able and witty editor of the Boston Post, Mr. Charles G. Greene. Besides his writings as editor, Mr. Greene has employed the leisure of official life in the preparation of several works, chiefly versions from the German of popular tales. His tales and sketches translated from the Italian, German, and French, appeared in Boston in 1843. ROBERT S. COFFIN, THE self-styled "Boston Bard," was a native of the state of Maine. He served his apprenticeship as a printer in Newburyport; worked on newspapers in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and illuminated their poet's corner with his verses. A number of these were collected in a volume entitled the Oriental Harp, Poems of the Boston Bard, with a stiff portrait of the author, in a Byronically disposed shirt collar. The contents are as varied as the productions of newspaper laureates are apt to be. Anything will inspire their ever-ready muse. The bard lying awake at night, hears "Yankee Doodle" in the street To arms, to arms! I waking, cried; A crutch! a hatchet! shovel! spade! "Presenting a lady with a cake of soap,” in itself a somewhat questionable liberty, seems to be made doubly so by the lecture which accompanies it, the moral as well as material alkali. The occasion is "improved” after the manner of Erskine's Smoking spiritualized.” The sparkling gem of Indian mines Does not its VALUE lose, Though on the robes of sluts it shines, Or decks the beggar's clothes. And lady, when this cake you press, Man's but a bubble on the leaf, That breaks e'en at the view. His muse is ready to greet all comers, from the "Mouse which took lodgings with the author in a public house, near the Park, New York," Fly not, poor trembler, from my bed, For here no murderous snare is spread, up to General La Fayette. Christmas and the Fourth of July are of course celebrated, nor is the "First of May in New York" neglected, as a stanza or two of a comic song, "sung with applause at Chatham Garden," rattles off like the heterogeneous laden carts in active motion on that day. First of May-clear the way! Pots and kettles, broken victuals, "A Large Nose and an Old Coat" show that the writer did not disdain familiar themes, while an "Ode to Genius, suggested by the present unhappy condition of the BOSTON BARD, an eminent poet of this country," stands in evidence that the bard held the poetaster's usual estimate of his powers. Coffin was at one period of his life a sailor, or, to use his own expression, "a Marine Bachelor." He died at Rowley, Mass., in May, 1827, at the early age of thirty. The following song would do honor to a poet of far higher pretensions. NATHANIEL LANGDON FROTHINGHAM was born at Boston July 23, 1793. After a preparation for college at the public schools of that city, he entered Harvard, where he completed his course in 1811. He next became an assistant teacher in the Boston Latin school, and afterwards a private tutor in the family of Mr. Lyman of Waltham. In 1812, when only nineteen, he was appointed instructor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard, being the first incumbent of the office. He pursued theological studies at the same time, and on the 15th of March, 1815, was ordained pastor of the First Church in Boston; a charge which he retained until 1850, when he resigned in consequence of ill health. Dr. Frothingham is the author of from forty to fifty sermons and addresses, published in separate forms, and of a volume, Sermons in the order of a Twelvemonth, none of which had previously appeared. He has also contributed numerous prose articles to various religious periodicals. His poetical career was commenced by the delivery of a poem in the junior year of his col The following list includes most of these productions :On the Death of Dr. Joseph McKean: 1818. Artillery Election Sermon: 1825. On the Death of President John Adams: 1826. Plea against Religious Controversy: 1829. Terms of Acceptance with God: 1829. Centennial Sermon on Two Hundred Years Ago: 1880. Signs in the Sun; On the great Eclipse of February 12: 1881. Barabbas preferred: 1832. Centennial Sermon of the Thursday Lecture: 1838. On the Death of Lafayette: 1834. Twentieth Anniversary of my Ordination: 1835. On the Death of J. G. Stevenson, M.D.: 1835. At the Installation of Rev. Wm. P. Lunt, at Quincy: 1835. At the Ordination of Mr. Edgar Buckingham: 1836. The Ruffian Released: 1886. The Chamber of Imagery: 1886. Duties of Hard Times: 1887. On the Death of Joseph P. Bradlee: 1838. All Saints' Day: 1840. The New Idolatry: 1840. The Solemn Week: 1841. Death of Dr. T. M. Harris, and of Hon. Daniel Sargent: 1842. The Believer's Rest: 1843. On the Death of Rev. Dr. Greenwood: 1843. The Duty of the Citizen to the Law: 1844. Address to the Alumni of the Theological School : 1844. Deism or Christianity? Four Discourses: 1845. Ordination of O. Frothingham: 1847. Funeral of Rev. Dr. Thomas Gray: 1847. A Fast Sermon-National Sins: 1847. Paradoxes in the Lord's Supper: 1848. A Fast Sermon; God among the Nations: 1848. Water into the City of Boston: 1848. Salvation through the Jews: 1850. Death of Hon. P. C. Brooks: 1849. Gold: 1849. Sermon on resigning my Ministry: 1850. Great Men; Washington's Birth-Day: 1852. Days of Mourning must end: 1858. lege course, at the inauguration of President Kirkland, which has never been published, but is still remembered with favor by its auditors. He has since contributed several occasional poems of great beauty to the magazines, written numerous hymns, which hold a place in the collections, and translated various specimens of the modern German poets. A collection of these, with the title Metrical Pieces, Translated and Original, is now in press. HYMN. O God, whose presence glows in all Whose word is Truth, whose name is Love. That truth be with the heart believed Of all who seek this sacred place; With power proclaimed, in peace received,— Our spirit's light, thy Spirit's grace. That love its holy influence pour, To keep us meek and make us free, Aud throw its binding blessing more Round each with all, and all with thee. Send down its angel to our side, Send in its calm upon the breast; For we would know no other guide, And we can need no other rest. THE MC LEAN ASYLUM, SOMERVILLE, MASS. O House of Sorrows! How thy domes Swell on the sight, but crowd the heart; While pensive fancy walks thy rooms, And shrinking Memory minds me what thou art! A rich gay mansion once wert thou; And he who built it chose its site On that hill's proud but gentle brow, For an abode of splendor and delight. Years, pains, and cost have reared it high, The stately pile we now survey;* Grander than ever to the eye;— But all its fireside pleasures-where are they? A stranger might suppose the spot Some seat of learning, shrine of thought;Ah! here alone Mind ripens not, And nothing reasons, nothing can be taught. Or he might deem thee a retreat For the poor body's need and ail; When sudden injuries stab and beat, Or in slow waste its inward forces fail. Ah, heavier hurts and wastes are here! The ruling brain distempered lies. When Mind flies reeling from its sphere, Life, health, aye, mirth itself, are mockeries O House of Sorrows! Sorer shocks Than can our frame or lot befall Are hid behind thy jealous locks; Man's Thought an infant, and his Will a thrall. The mental, moral, bodily parts, So nicely separate, strangely blent, Or sink together, wildered all and spent. Of grief and wonder for the musing soul! O House of Mercy! Refuge kind For Nature's most unnatural state! Its healing helper and its sheltering gate! The chain, the lash, the fetid, living tomb! He lays on that crazed brother's head! Yes, Love has planned thee, Love endowed;- Or bears in thee each day its healthful part. Than when the wretch no force could bindThe roving, raving Gadarene Sat at his blessed feet, and in his perfect mind? Mr. Richard Frothingham, Jun., the author of the thorough and valuable History of the Siege of Boston, is a relative of Dr. Frothingham. ROBERT WALN ROBERT WALN was born in Philadelphia in 1797. He received a liberal education, but never engaged in professional pursuits. He published in 1819 The Hermit in America on a visit to Philadel phia, one of several imitations of an English work then popular, the Hermit in London. It contains a series of sketches on the fashionable pursuits and topics of city life, pleasantly written, but without any features of mark. In the following year he made a similar essay in verse by the publication of American Bards, a Satire. In this poem of nearly one thousand lines he reviews the leading aspirants of the day, praising Cliffton and Dwight and condemning Barlow and Humphreys. Lucius M. Sargent and Knight receive severe treatment, and the Backwoodsman is dealt with in like manner. In the course of the piece a number of minor writers of the ever renewed race of poetasters are mentioned, most of whom have long since been forgotten. A description of a newspaper with the approaches of a youthful bard is one of its best passages. How oft, when seated in our elbow-chairs, The Politician roams through every clime: And humming all the advertisements o'er, And as he lisps the Thespian Bill of Fare, Now, with a trembling step, he seeks the door, the news, Waln published a second volume of verse in the same year entitled Sisyphi Opus, or Touches at the Times, with other poems, and in 1821 The Hermit in Philadelphia, a continuation of his previous work, but mostly occupied with a caveat against the introduction of foreign vices into the United States. He makes up a formidable list of wives sold at Smithfield, betting noblemen, and bruised prizefighters, as an offset to the stories by English travellers of society in our frontier settlements. We next hear of our author as the supercargo of a vessel, in which capacity he made a voyage to China, turning his observations to account on his return by writing a history of that country, which was published in quarto numbers. He also undertook the editorship of the Lives of the Signers, after the publication of the third volume, and wrote several of the biographies which appeared in the subsequent portion of the series. În 1824 he published a Life of Lafayette. In addition to these works he was the author of numerous contributions to the periodicals of the day. He died in 1824. HUNTING SONG. "Tis the break of day, and cloudless weather, The eager dogs are all roaming together, WILLIAM A. MÜHLENBERG. THE Rev. Dr. Muhlenberg, a de-cendant from a family of revolutionary fame, was for many years the head of St. Paul's College, Flushing, Long Island, an institution which under his control attained a high measure of usefulness and reputation. He is now Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Communion in the city of New York. Dr. Muhlenberg published in 1823, Church Poetry: Being portions of the Psalms in verse, and Hymns suited to the Festivals and Fasts and various occasions of the Church, selected and altered from various Authors.* He has since, in connexion with the Rev. Dr. Wainwright, published a work on Church Music, and has done much in the practical advancement of public taste in the same direction by the choral arrangements of his own church, while he has served church poetry as well as music by the production of several highly esteemed hymns. We give the best known of these in its original form, with a brief note from the Evangelical Catholic, a weekly paper conducted for about a year by Dr. Muhlenberg, descriptive of its introduction in the Episcopal collection (where it appears in an abridged form). THE 187TH HYMN. We have been so repeatedly urged by several of our readers to give them the whole of the original of "I would not live alway," that we at length comply, though somewhat reluctantly, as it has appeared at various times in print before-first in the Philadelphia Episcopal Recorder, somewhere about the year 1824. It was written without the remotest idea that any portion of it would ever be employed in the devotions of the Church. Whatever service it has done in that way is owing to the late Bishop of Pennsylvania, then the Rector of St. Ann's Church, Brooklyn, who made the selection of verses out of the whole, which constitutes the present hymn, and offered it to the Committee on Hymns, appointed by the General Convention of The hymn was, at first, rejected by the committee, of which the unknown author was a member, who, upon a satirical criticism being made upon it, earnestly voted against its adoption. It was admitted on the importunate application of Dr. Onderdonk to the bishops on the committee. Tae following is a revised copy of the original: Phila.; 12mo. pp. 268. I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY.-Job vii. 16. I would not live alway-live alway below! Apostles and martyrs so joyfully trod? way: While brethren and friends are all hastening home, Leaves its brilliance to fade in the night of despair, I would not live alway-thus fettered by sin, I would not live alway-no, welcome the tomb; Who, who would live alway-away from his God, And the noontide of glory eternally reigns: soar, And in ecstasy bid earth adieu, evermore. Dr. Muhlenberg is also the author of several pamphlets on topics connected with the church of which he is a prominent member, and the numerous charitable enterprises of the city with which his name is identified. SAMUEL H. DICKSON WAS born in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1798. His parents, from the north of Ireland, were both of unmixed Scottish blood. His father came to America before the Revolutionary war, and fought in the south under General Lincoln and others. He was in Charleston during the siege, but escaped in a canoe up Cooper river previous to the capitulation. He was long a resident in Charleston, where he taught the school of the South Ca rolina Society. He died in 1819. The maternal uncle of Dr. Dickson was Samuel Neilson, the editor of the Northern Star, the first paper published in Ireland advocating Catholic Emancipation, and was one of the first of the Protestants who became United Irishinen. He suffered a long imprisonment after the execution of Emmet, and, being at last released on condition of expatriating himself, came to this country and died at Poughkeepsie. Sand Henry Dick, Or The early education of Dr. Dickson was chiefly in Charleston College, a respectable high-school merely at that time, under Drs. Buist and Hedley and Judge King. He was sent to Yale College in 1811, joined the Sophomore class, and was graduated in due course. He commenced at once, in his seventeenth year, the study of medicine, entering the office of Dr. P. G. Prioleau, who had reached the highest point of professional eminence at the South, and whose practice was extended and lucrative in an almost unparalleled degree. In 1817, '18, and '19, he attended lectures in the University of Pennsylvania in its palmy days, when Chapman, Physick, and Wistar were among its faculty, and received the diploma in 1819. He returned to Charleston and became engaged in a large practice. In 1823 he delivered a course of lectures on Physiology and Pathology before the medical students of the city, the class consisting of about thirty. With Dr. Ramsay, who then read to the same class a course of lectures on Surgery, and Dr. Frost, he undertook the agitation of the subject of domestic medical instruction, and urged the institution of a Medical College in Charleston. He moved the Medical Society to petition to the Legislature for a charter, which was granted, and the school went into operation in 1824. He was elected without opposition to the professorship of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, which chair he held until 1832, when he resigned it in consequence of a contest between the Medical Society and the College. The next year he was appointed to the same chair in the Medical College of the state of South Carolina, newly erected, with a liberal charter from the legislature. In 1847 he received the unanimous vote of the New York University to fill the chair rendered vacant by the death of Professor Revere, and removed to that city, where he lectured to large classes. In 1850, at the earnest request of his former colleagues, he resumed his connexion with the Medical School at Charleston. His writings are varied and numerous. He has been a contributor to many of the periodicals of the day, and has delivered many occasional addresses, which have been published. His address before the Phi Beta Kappa of Yale in 1842, on the Pursuit of Happiness, is one of the most inportant of the latter. He has written many articles in the American Medical Journal of Philadelphia, the Medical Journal of New York, the Charleston Medical Journal and Review, and in some of the Western journals. He has published two large volumes on the Practice of Medicine, |