text:  Who can peruse without interest the accounts of the glorious reign of Alexander; of that man who issuing from the mountains of Macedonia riveted the fetters of despotism on Greece which had grown unworthy of freedom and carried his victorious arms over the fertile plains of Palestine till he stood a conqueror amidst the palaces of Persepolis and finally halted only on the frontiers of Hindostan arrested in his progress not by the arms of his enemies but by the revolt of his soldiers? He flung a halo of glory around the last days of Greece like the bright light of a meteor whose course he resembled equally in the rapidity and brilliancy of his career