Andrew Marvell, an English author, born at Kingston-upon-Hull, Nov. 15, 1620, died in London, Aug. 16, 1678. He was the son of the Rev. Andrew Marvell, master of the grammar school and lecturer of Trinity church in Hull, and at the age of 15 was sent to Trinity college, Cambridge. He is said to have taken his degree of B. A. in 1638, and subsequent to 1641 he passed four years on the continent, remaining a considerable time in Italy, where he probably contracted his intimacy with Milton, which was interrupted only by the death of the latter. Subsequently he was a private tutor, and in 1657 was associated with Milton in the Latin secretaryship. About 1660 he was returned to parliament from Hull, a post which he filled by successive elections until the close of his life. He is said to have been the last member of parliament who received " wages " from his constituents. Between 1661 and 1663 he was in Holland, and from July in the latter year to 1665 he acted as secretary to Lord Carlisle, the ambassador extraordinary to Russia, Sweden, and Denmark. He main- | tained a close correspondence with his consti-tuents, sending them during the greater part of his legislative career a daily account of the proceedings in parliament.

These letters, first published in 1777, are written in a laconic, business-like style, and afford a curious illustration of the ability and fidelity with which Marvell performed his public duties. He never spoke in parliament, but his strong views of the corrupt practices of the time, his biting satires in prose and verse on influential placemen, and the conviction that he was not to be silenced by bribes or flattery, made him a formidable enemy to the court. It is even said that he was threatened with assassination. His probity and honor earned for him the name of the " British Aristides." He died suddenly, supposed by some to have been poisoned, for which there seems to be no reasonable ground, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-fields at the expense of his constituents, who also voted a monument to his memory, which the rector refused to have erected. His chief work in prose is the "Rehearsal Transprosed," a satirical reply to an acrimonious attack by Dr. Samuel Parker, afterward bishop of Oxford, upon the nonconformists.

In the second part of the "Rehearsal," one of the most remarkahle passages is the author's defence of Milton. His last work, " An Account of the Growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government in England" (1678), was so distasteful to the court, that a reward was offered for the discovery of the printer, and Marvell was compelled frequently to conceal himself. His poems comprise political satires, written in a coarser strain than his prose works, and some minor pieces of great tenderness and beauty, including the well known commendatory lines on Milton's "Paradise Lost." A full edition of his works v. published in 1776 (3 vols. 4to); and there is an American edition of his poems, edited by James Russell Lowell (Boston, 1857; reprinted, London, 1870). The first volume of a complete edition of his works, with notes and a memorial, by A. B. Grossart, to comprise four volumes, appeared in London in 1872.