. American lands and letters. enial contempo-rary of the last, who came to high political prefer-ment — a most genial, kindly man, who wrote withgrace, and who threw a good deal of the liumorand easy persiflage that equip Bracebridgc Hallaround his sketches of old Virginia life. Dr. Bird,f a physician of Philadelphia (wherethe arts of Hippocrates and of the muses seemeasily to weld themselves) X wrote a bouncing anddeclamatory tragedy, Spartacus — made famousby the loud histrionics of Forrest, in the dayswhen Martin Van Buren held the Presidentialchair. He wrote also one or two romances of the
. American lands and letters. enial contempo-rary of the last, who came to high political prefer-ment — a most genial, kindly man, who wrote withgrace, and who threw a good deal of the liumorand easy persiflage that equip Bracebridgc Hallaround his sketches of old Virginia life. Dr. Bird,f a physician of Philadelphia (wherethe arts of Hippocrates and of the muses seemeasily to weld themselves) X wrote a bouncing anddeclamatory tragedy, Spartacus — made famousby the loud histrionics of Forrest, in the dayswhen Martin Van Buren held the Presidentialchair. He wrote also one or two romances of theAztec and Mexican times, which won the highcommendation of so competent a judge as Prescott. In New York — where our Northward trend of *John P. Kennedy; b. 1795; d. 1870. Sivallow-Barn,1832; Horseshoe Robi7ison, 1835. t Robert Montgomery Bird, b. 1803; d. 1854. Calavar,1834; Infidel, 1835. I Instance : the two Drs. Rush (Benjamin and James),Dr. Bird, Dr. Caspar Wistar, Dr. Garretson, and Drs. J. S. W. ]\ From an engravings l<y llhelpley. WILLIAM WARE. 129 travel carries us — in those days when Miss FannyKenible had found her way thither, and whenForrest made the boards of the okl Park Theatretremble with his Spartacus, and Gladiator—
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