you may consider absent from this. The sub- 

 ject matter will be, — the great MegadniT/x^ the 

 monstrous lion of the Greeks; the cruel carni- 

 vorous animal of this western world, who was 

 " huge as the frowning precipice; cruel as the 

 bloody panther, swift as the descending eagle^ 

 and terrible as the angel of night! " 



