hear that he is receiving them in the most substantial form-to wit, paying subscribers. We hope his list will continue to augment, not only because his enterprise deserves remuneration, but because every additional subscriber enables him to make additional exertions to enhance the value of his agreeable and instructive" Messenger."

From the New Yorker.

think of it, and hope that time will take the conceit out of her.

"Lionel Granby" is the title of a series of odd, pedantic, yet humorous and characteristic papers, which we are tempted to consider the best light reading in the Messenger. To an old-school Virginian, they must be delightful.

The critical department of the Messenger is managed with great candor, consideration and The Southern Literary Messenger-We have ability. We place the qualifications in this order, long meditated a more extended notice of this not that the ability is less prominent, but because elegant periodical, than we have hitherto found it is perhaps of the three least enviable in a releisure to give-not more on account of our nume- viewer. The Editor examines with impartiality, rous Southern friends-with whom it must neces-judges with fairness, commends with evident pleasarily be a favorite, than of our literature generally, sure, and condemns with moderation. May he to which the Messenger forms a very creditable live a thousand years!—or at least to have five addition. And notwithstanding that our columns thousand gratified, substantial and ‘available' pafor this week are mainly bespoken, we must not trons. allow the current number-being the first of a new volume-to pass from our table without a brief glance over its contents.

From the Baltimore Gazette.

The Southern Literary Messenger.-A_little more than a year has elapsed since Mr. White commenced, in Richmond, Virginia, the publication of a Monthly Literary Journal. At that time an experiment of the kind, south of Mason and Dixon's line, was considered a novel one, but the ability with which it has been conducted, and the

"Sketches of the History and Present Condition of Tripoli, with some account of the other Barbary States," is the opening paper, written by one evidently conversant with his subject, and whose chapters are calculated to add materially to the meager stock of popular information hitherto possessed with regard to the history and present con-wide circulation it has obtained, have fully demondition of the Barbary powers.

Scraps from an Unpublished Drama, by Edgar A. Poe," contains one or two stirring and many beautiful passages--but we are not partial to dramatic poetry.

Speaking of poetry, we find some that is commendable, and much that we deem, with all deference, well nigh execrable. Of the former class is "October."

Of the otherwise, nearly all that is intended for blank verse may serve as a specimen. It is singular that people will continue, in the face of good advice, to break up sober prose into unequal and most inharmonious lines, and then attempt to pass it off for verse, which it very remotely resembles. The following is extracted from an article which really contains poetry.

"The story goes, that a
Neglected girl (an orphan whom the world
Frowned upon) once strayed thither, and 't was thought
Did cast her in the stream."

"An Address on Education," by Lucian Minor, is among the best articles in the Messenger. It were well if such a startling exhibition of facts, such an array of cogent reasonings, were presented to every influential citizen of our vast Union.

strated that it required but talent and persevering energy on the one part, and a liberal co-operation on the other, to impart to it a reputation equal to that enjoyed by any other of our Monthlies. We have now before us the first number of the second volume, whose pages we find diversified with a variety of entertaining and excellent matter. The publisher has secured the assistance of a gentleman of eminent literary talents, with whose aid it may fairly be inferred that the Messenger will not only sustain but increase its already extensive and deserved popularity. The literary notices contained in this number are written with great ability, but in our opinion rather too great a space has been devoted to this subject. The old adage-ne quid nimis-is applicable not less to a literary undertaking than to the general pursuits of life.

From the Petersburg Constellation.

The Southern Literary Messenger. We have received the first number of the second volume of Mr. White's popular and valuable Literary Messenger. We bid it a more cordial welcome to our table, admiring in proportion to their relative merits, the unrivalled professional skill with which "Extracts from my Mexican Journal" are judi- its typographical dress is adjusted, and the rich cious and replete with information. We remark and attractive guise which wit, genius and learnthat, since recent occurrences have rendered Mexi-ing have combined to throw over the pages of what co an object of interest in this country, the obser- must now be acknowledged as the first monthly vations of tourists and men of business who have lately visited that country, are very liberally drawn upon by our Monthlies.'

magazine in this country. The contributions, prose and poetical, are of a high grade of excellence; and the critiques are now precisely what "The Wissahiccon," and its romantic scenery, they should be in such a work-faithful mirrors, is made the subject of enthusiastic description-by reflecting in miniature the book reviewed, and a Philadelphian, of course. Well, truth to say, exposing alike its beauties and deformities withthere are some enchanting spots out of Philadel-out favor or affection. We have rarely read a phia, to say nothing of those within it. If we could only bring her self-satisfied citizens to admit that a civilized person may while away a season in New York, without positive privation of all quiet, cleanliness, and comfort, why then we might in turn regard the Quaker capital as a very tolerable, inoffensive, well-behaved city. As it is, we must

review more caustic or more called for than the flaying which the new editor of the Messenger has so judiciously given Mr. Fay's "bepuffed, beplastered and be-Mirrored" novel of " Norman Leslie."

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such aid has been promised, and from such sour as cannot fail to place the Messenger upon a level w Europe. In the typographical and entire mechan any similar publication in the United States-if no execution we are determined to spare neither labor expense. A new fount of type has been received pressly for the work, and some extensive arrangeme which we have in contemplation will not fail to g the entire publication a neater and more pleasing

While we now return sincere thanks for the patron already so nobly afforded us, we take this opportu

upon the South for support-and are well assu that our appeal will not be in vain.

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