THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE

Of Literature, Art, and Science.

Vol. III. NEW-YORK, JULY 1, 1851. No. IV.

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Contents

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.
THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS OF NEW-YORK.
ADVENTURES AND OBSERVATIONS IN NICARAGUA.
THE CONSPIRACY OF PONTIAC.
DR. STARBUCK MAYO, AUTHOR OF "KALOOLAH," "THE BERBER," &c.
ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
FRENCH FEUILLETONISTES UPON LONDON.
SCHALKEN THE PAINTER.—A GHOST STORY.
SKETCHES OF LIFE IN SWEDEN.
A FRENCHMAN'S OPINIONS OF AMERICAN FEMALE POETS.
JEANNE MARIE, AND LYRICAL POETRY IN GERMANY.
AUTHORS AND BOOKS.
THE FINE ARTS.
NICHOLAS VON DER FLUE.
A STORY WITHOUT A NAME.
HORACE WALPOLE'S OPINIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES.
THE COUNT MONTE-LEONE: OR, THE SPY IN SOCIETY.
SCENES AT MALMAISON.
THE GRAVE OF GRACE AGUILAR.
THE CLOISTER-LIFE OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V.—Part. II.
DICKENS AND THACKERAY.
WORK AWAY!
OUR PHANTOM SHIP.—JAPAN.
MY NOVEL:
HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE MONTH.
RECENT DEATHS.
RECORD OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.
LADIES' SUMMER FASHIONS.

FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

The author of Fanny, Burns, Marco Bozzaris, etc., was born at Guilford in Connecticut, in August, 1795, and in his eighteenth year removed to the city of New-York. He evinced a taste for poetry and wrote verses at a very early period; but the oldest of his effusions I have seen are those under the signatures of "Croaker," and "Croaker & Co.," published in the New-York Evening Post, in 1819. In the production of these pleasant satires he was associated with Doctor Drake, author of the Culprit Fay, a man of brilliant wit and delicate fancy, with whom he was long intimate. Drake died in 1820, and his friend soon after wrote for the New-York Review, then edited by Bryant, the lines to his memory, beginning—

Near the close of 1819, Halleck published Fanny, his longest poem, which was written and printed in three weeks; in 1827 a small volume, containing Alnwick Castle, Marco Bozzaris, and a few other pieces, which had previously appeared in various miscellanies; and in 1836, an edition of all his serious and more finished compositions. The last and most complete edition of his works appeared two years ago in a splendid volume