Her spear now a thunder-bolt flash'd in the air, And sulphur the vault fill'd around: She smote the grim monster; and now by the hair High lifting, she hurl'd him in speechless despair Down the depths of the chasm profound. Then waving, with smiles, o'er the picture her spear, "Come forth!" said the good Geraldine; When, behold, from the canvass fair Ellen appear! In feature, in person more lovely than e'er, With grace more than ever divine! _Mo. Anthology_, VII-391, Dec. 1809, Boston. [Washington Allston, _idem_. Cf. pp. 18, 19.] [Footnote 47: This being a _free country_, I have taken the liberty, for the sake of the metre, to alter the word prismatick, as above!] THE SQUEAKING GHOST. A tale imitated from the German. _Boston Mirror_, II-96, Jan. 6, 1810, Boston. [Also in _Charms of Lit. in Prose and Verse_, p. 350, 1808, Trenton.] THE PAINT KING. _Something_, I-151, Jan. 20, 1810, Boston. [Also in _Mo. Anthology_, VII-391, Dec. 1809, Boston.] IV LIST OF TRANSLATIONS OF GERMAN PROSE, AND LIST OF ARTICLES ON THE GERMAN COUNTRIES Many references to Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, etc., are to be found in the news sections of the magazines, but they are too numerous and too brief to be noted in the following list. =The General Mag. & Hist. Chronicle= for all the British Plantations in America.--B. Franklin, Phila. I--Jan.-June, 1741. News from Germany. =Amer. Mag. & Hist. Chronicle.=--Boston. I--Sept. 1743-Dec. 1744. 499--A Description of the City of Hamburg, with several observations on the Hamburghers, and other Germans, &c. II--1745. 373--Ld. P----l's Speech, upon the Report of the Hanoverian Troops, 1744. 492--The Dutch method of manning fleets. III--1746. 311--Description of the City of Antwerp. 406--King of Prussia--his character. [Foreign affairs--many paragraphs on Vienna, Hague, Utrecht, Stockholm in Sweden, Denmark, etc.] =Independent Reflector.=--N. Y. Nos. 1-52, Nov. 30, 1752-Nov. 22, 1753. 21--A Vindication of the Moravians, against the aspersions of their enemies. =Amer. Mag. & Mo. Chronicle.=--Phila. I--Oct. 1757-Oct. 1758. 136--Character of the King of Prussia. [Many paragraphs giving news of Germany.] =The New Amer. Mag.=--Woodbridge in N. J. Nos. XIII-XXIV, 1759. 418--The following remarkable curiosities of Denmark are inserted as an agreeable amusement. 462--On a very useful custom established in Holland; from the French of Voltaire. =The Royal Amer. Mag.=--Boston. Jan.-Dec. 1774.