{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p3", "byline": ""}
DIR. .PERCIVAL,-so we'll, and so justly
admired forhis poetic elfusions, was ensag-
ed. short time since, as Editor OF the
American Athenaum-hc announced HIM
self as such, and i'll three days Afterwards
suddenly abandoned his engagement, return
ed to the proprietor of the work the articles
Of agreement, depal ted from New York, and
has not since been heard of. The editor o.
the Commercial Advertiser, by whose ascn-
cv this business was brought about, says
cdr. Percival is an elegant scholar, and OF
high intellectual endowments. But Mel
ancholy seems to have marked him Tor her
own.' There are moments, however IN
which he is gay and cheerful, but they are
like the transient beams of the sun darting
through the occasional breakings OF heavy
autumnal clouds; they light up a smile but
for moment, and all again is dependency
and gloom. His friends have done every
thing for his employment and comtort-ou'
in vain"