Mesrss I Riley & Co. have now in press and will soon publishi, in a handsome octavo volume, price three dollars the life of that celebrated poet and literary character Doctor James Beattie..

Messrs. Wright, Goodenow, and Stockwell have lately published an elegant edition of Hudibras, the first edition of that work which has come from the American press.

The same gentlemen have given notice that they intend to commit to the press in a few weeks, the first American edition of the elegant Letters of Lord Lyttleton, the Younger.

The first volume of The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, publishing by Messrs J. West and O. C. Greenleaf, will be ready for delivery in a few weeks.

A new and elegant edition of Johnson's Dictionary in Miniature is publishing by W. Andrews, No. 1 Cornhill..

A new edition of The Iliad, in two vols.. 18mo. is just published by E. Cotton, No.. 47 Marlborough-Street.

A Portrait and Biography of Gen. Joseph Warren will be given in our next.

THE

POLYANTHOS.

NOVEMBER, 1806.

MEMOIRS
OF

MAJOR-GEN. JOSEPH WARREN.

F it be generally thought useful and en

nence and worth, those pieces of biography must be peculiarly interesting which bring to our view persons who were alive in the cause of American freedom; and who by their talents and exertions made us an independent nation.

GEN. WARREN claims our attention as the first of that band of heroes who fell in the ́ high places of the field. He was certainly the first of any peculiar distinction; and he was a man whose sagacity and patriotism where equal to his valour. This gentleman was born in Roxbury, of respectable parents, in the year 1740; and in that place receiv T... VOL. 3.

ed the first rudiments of his education. He entered Harvard College when he was but fifteen years old, and received the honours of that seminary in 1759 and 1762. Having turned his attention to Medical Studies, he was soon qualified for practice, and in the year 1764, when the small pox spread through Boston, and vast numbers were inoculated, he was among the physicians, who were most eminent in the profession. Had he confined his views to professional business be might have enjoyed the affluence of wealth, with a high reputation. He certainly was happy in the affection of a numerous part of this town, who had the most lively opinion of his humanity and skill. His fine address,as well as his taste for philosophy and the belles lettres, gained him the esteem and regard of the polite and learned, while his frank, open disposition, and obliging attention to persons under various circumstances of human distress, caused him to be. greatly beloved by those who tread the humble walks of life. But his mind was too ardent and active to be confined to the duties of a profession, and he was a stranger to the passion of avarice. He soon had an opportunity to show his talents as a fine writer, and also his eloquence and patriotick zeal. These were manifested upon many occasions from the year the Stamp Act was passed, to the time of the war which separated the colonies from the parent country. He was