NOTES. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. (1) Page 13.-MARCO Bozzaris, one of the best and bravest of the mod ern Greek chieftains. He fell in a night attack upon the Turkish camp at Laspi, the site of the ancient Platæa, August 20, 1823, and expired in the moment of victory. (2) Page 18.-ALNWICK CASTLE, Northumberlandshire, a seat of the Duke of Northumberland. Written in October, 1822, after visiting the "Home of the Percy's high-born race." (3) Page 20.-From him who once his standard set.-One of the ancestors of the Percy family was an Emperor of Constantinople. (4) Page 20.-Fought for King George at Lexington.-The late duke. He commanded a detachment of the British army, in the affair at Lexington and Concord, in 1775. (5) Page 21.-From royal Berwick's beach of sand.-Berwick was formerly a principality. Richard II. was styled "King of England, France, and Ireland, and Berwick-upon-Tweed." (6) Page 30.-WYOMING.-The allusion in the following stanzas can be understood by those only who have read Campbell's beautiful poem, "GERTRUDE OF WYOMING: " but who has not read it? (7) Page 46.—“ RED JACKET" appeared originally in 1828, soon after the publication of Mr. Cooper's "NOTIONS OF THE AMERICANS." (8) Page 57.-MAGDALEN.-Written in 1823, for a love-stricken young officer on his way to Greece. The reader will have the kindness to presume that he died there. (9) Page 87.-Lieut. ALLEN.-He commanded the U. S. sloop-of-war Alligator, and was mortally wounded on the 9th of November, 1822, in an 16* action with pirates, near Matanzas, in the Island of Cuba. His mother, a few hours after hearing of his death, died-literally of a broken heart. (10) Page 89.-WALTER BOWNE, then, and for two years previous, a Senator at Albany, and member of the Council of Appointment. He was afterward Mayor of New York, where he died in August, 1846. (11) Page 93.-During the second war with Great Britain, Mr. Halleck joined a New-York infantry company, "Swartwout's gallant corps, the Iron Grays," as he afterward wrote in "Fanny," and excited their martial ardor by this spirited ode. Among the few survivors of this much-admired corps, are Gouverneur S. Bibby, Stephen Cambreleng, Dr. Edward Delafield, Hickson W. Field, James W. Gerard, and Charles W. Sandford. (12) Page 96.-CONTOIT'S GARDEN, open to the public under the auspices of a Frenchman of that name, on the west side of Broadway, between Leonard and Franklin Streets. (13) Page 96.-MADAME SAINT MARTIN, the proprietress of a milliner's and perfumery shop on Broadway, next door to the Garden. (14) Page 97.-The "OPERA FRANCAIS," a name given during the summer season, while occupied by a troupe of French actors from New Orleans, to the Chatham Garden Theatre of Mr. Palmo, situated on the west side of Chatham Street, between Duane and Pearl. The "Opera" was a place of fashionable resort, and patronized particularly by the distinguished personages named Mrs. President J. Q. Adams and Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain. The three "danseuses" mentioned were among the principal performers attached to the Opera. (15) Page 97.-"SWAMP PLACE," a name given, either in jest or earnest, to a plot of ground in the neighborhood of Jacob and Ferry Streets, near which some medical Columbus of the time had found or fancied a mineral spring of imperishable merit. Unfortunately, it proved itself to be less than a "nine days' wonder," by vanishing one morning, like a dream. (16) Page 98.-The names of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, De Witt Clinton, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Webster, which occur on this page, belong to history. (17) Page 98.-The "ANNUAL REGISTER," edited by Joseph Blunt, a young lawyer of ability, then in progress; soon after discontinued. Stanza 1.-" FANNY.”—Of this young lady and her worthy father, to whose exemplary and typical career the author was indebted for the theme of his story, we are not permitted to reveal more than that they wish to be known and remembered only in the words from Milton, on the title-page, among "Gay creatures of the element, That in the colors of the rainbow live, Stanza 6, etc.-Doctors MITCHILL, HOSACK, and FRANCIS, then (1819) eminent physicians in New York, highly distinguished, not only in their profession, and as authors of popular works connected with medicine and general knowledge, but as active and useful leaders in the social, literary, and scientific institutions of the city. Doctor Mitchill, moreover, had won the name of a philosopher by his frequent discoveries, more or less important, in geology and other conjectural sciences. Stanza 8, etc.-JAMES K. PAULDING, one of the best and most popular of early American authors. The quotation is from his poem, "The Backwoodsman," then recently published. He afterward rose, or fell, from literature to politics, and became navy agent at New York, and Secretary of the Navy during President Van Buren's administration. Stanza 13.-The "MODERN SOLOMON," a nom de plume given to Mr. Lang by the pleasantry of his brethren of the press. The front door of his office was surmounted by the figure-head of his assumed prototype, Doctor Franklin, mentioned in stanza 49. The bust and statue therein named as specimens of the fine arts in America at the period were to be seen, the one in plaster at the Academy of Arts (stanza 51), the one in wax at Scudder's Museum (stanza 68). Poor McDonald Clarke, the mad poet of New York, having been called in Lang's paper a person with "zig-zag brains," immediately responded in the following neat epigram: "I can tell Johnny Lang, in the way of a laugh, In reply to his rude and unmannerly scrawl, That in my humble sense it is better by half To have brains that are zig-zag than to have none at all." Stanza 16, etc.-CADWALLADER D. COLDEN, then Mayor of the city, before whose door, in accordance with immemorial usage, two prominent lamps were placed, in token of his magisterial position, to remain during and after his mayoralty. His residence, and the office of Mr. Lang, the editor of the New-York Gazette (see stanzas 11 and 49), were in the neighborhood of Pearl Street and Hanover Square. Stanza 23.-DOMINICK LYNCH, a popular importer of French wines, who ranked among the prominent merchants of the city. He was well known |