der this signature he also gave several translations of great merit from the Greek and Roman poets.
Mr. Sands was admitted to the bar in the spring of the year 1820, the day before he completed his twenty-first year. He then opened an office and commenced the practice of his profession in the city of New-York. The writer of this notice is not positive whether it was about this period that he revised his classical studies, and extended his acquaintance with the poets of antiquity. Certain it is, however, that after leaving college, he applied himself with great ardor to the reading of such of the old authors, as had engaged the least of his attention in the schools, particularly the Greek tragedians, with whose works he gained a rare familiarity. Having accomplished this, he acquired the Italian language, and read carefully all its great authors, from Dante downwards to Monti in our own times. At a subsequent period he studied the Spanish tongue critically, and made himself acquainted with its most celebrated writers. French he had learned early, and was at home in its literature; and a little before his death he had begun to read the Portuguese authors.
In 1822, and the subsequent year, he wrote much for the Literary Review, a monthly periodical, then published in New-York, by Van Winkle, which received a great increase of reputation from the contributions of his pen. In the winter of 1823–4, some of his happiest efforts in the humorous style, of which he was a great master, appeared in the Tammany Magazine, a periodical which had not even the ordinary fortune of lasting to the end of the year. In May, 1824, the "Analectic Magazine" was established in the city of New-York, by E. Bliss & E. White, and placed under his charge. At the end of six months he gave up the work, but was afterwards engaged as one of the editors, when it had changed its name to that of "The New-York Review," and assisted in conducting it, until, in 1826, the year before its dissolution, it was united with the Literary Gazette, published in Boston. In 1827 he accepted an engagement to write for the Commercial Advertiser, which continued until his death.
The letters of Cortes, the conqueror of Mexico, were published in this city, in 1828, for the S. American market. Mr. Sands wrote a life of that famous adventurer, compiled from the old Spanish historians, to which he was so fortunate as to obtain access, and from other authentic sources. It was translated by Mr. Dominguez, a learned Spaniard of this city, and pre-
