portraits of Paul Jones and Truxton, and the musical sentiment broke forth in ejaculations of Tally Ho! and old Towler in one part of the town, and, in softer accents, with Roussean's Dream in another. Here and there, too, might be found a coterie gratified with the crescendo and diminuendo of Signor Trazetta; nearly thirty years elapsed from this period ere the arrival of the Garcia troupe, through the efforts of our lamented Almaviva, Dominick Lynck, the nonpareil of society, when the Italian opera, with its unrivalled claims, burst forth from the enchanting voice of that marvellous company. The years 1795–1800 were unquestionably the period in which the treasures of the German mind were first developed in this city by our exotic and indigenous writers. That learned orientalist, Dr. Kunze, now commenced the translations into English of the German Hymns, and Strebeck and Milledolar gave us the Catechism of the Lutherans. The Rev. Mr. Will, Charles Smith, and William Dunlap now supplied novelties from the German dramatic school, and Kotzebue and Schiller were found on that stage where Shakespeare had made his first appearance in the new world in 1752. Colles had other mental resources, as the gayeties and gravities of life were dominant with him. The city was the home of many noble spirits of the Revolution: General Stevens, of the Boston Tea Party, was here, full of anecdote. Fish, of Yorktown celebrity, and Gates of Saratoga, always accessible.
There existed in New York, about these times, a war of opinion which seized even the medical faculty. The Bastile had been taken.
collegiate life. Notwithstanding Porson's labors, "What's Hecuba to me or I to Hecuba?" is the exclamation of many a youth whose formative development sprung from
Humitus o muro Dumtius heu cecidit!
Sed non regis equi, reginæ exercitus omnis,
Humti, te, Dumti, restituere loco!
Hei didulum! atque iterum didulum! felisque fidesque,
Vacca super lumæ cornua prosiluit:
Nescio qua catulus risit dulcedine ludi;
Alstulit et turpi lanx cochleare fuga.
A like obscurity hangs over Jackey Horner. After all that has been said, we know not more accurately of his nativity than we do of the site of that antient city, old Troy.
