MILTON begins a letter to a learned Athenian with informing him, that from boyhood he had been devoutly attached to the study of every circumstance connected with Greece, and above all with Athens “. That this was not a cold-nor barren admiration of Grecian laws and usages is proved by the eagerness which be manifested to transplant them into his native comtry.\Varmed with this fair’idea, and as a step toward realizing it, he availed himself of an opportunity to sub-mit to the ruling authorities, whether they should not refine our own “high tides and

“solemn festivals,” so as, to render them instrumental to purposes of general im-provement, and one mean for conveying instruction to the public. This refinement was to have for its model the Panathenaaa, and other stated celebrations among. the