ATTILA
Is a tragedy in "King Ca.mbyses vein." The Hun is a bloody denunciator ; he breathes curses, and lisps death. He never speaks but to order for execution ; he never sters but to destroy ; in short, he is a raving tyrant. The plot of the tragedy is not much more varied than the character of the hero; it is composed, as usual, of rivalry, treachery, and torture, and is not made Co assume any novel form. The following is A.ttila's order respecting a little entertainment he gets up for himself before dinner-
" Now be the rites Of sacrifice concluded. Let the skulls Of all your slaughter'd captives be preserved; They are the natiee nor-cups of the Hans ; And when the warlike Scythian quaffs his wine, The rosy nectar, singing to his lip,
Foams- in those mazy channels, where the brain Of mortal man once stored its mighty thoughts, And struggled for supremacy with Heaven."
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