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 88 keep one person constantly employed to overhaul MSS. and do nothing else."

Yes, the number of contributors, new and old, is very striking, as is also the wide range from which they come, besides "the Sunny Southland."

By way of contrast, we next have a long biographical notice of the founder, in Pennsylvania, of the Brackenridges, or Breckenbridges, and a shorter Memoir, by the Rev. William Norwood, of the Rt. Rev. Richard Channing Moore, the venerable and beloved Bishop of Virginia. Nasus (Miss Susan Walker, of Fredericksburg, ) gives us a good story about "Female Influence," and several other Virginia ladies contribute tales and novelettes. Tuckerman tells of Keats and other poets; and DeLeon, of South Carolina, several times indulges in a similar vein. Consul Andrews runs his "Knights of Malta" through the volume.

After the fifth paper on "Arabian Literature" (author still unknown), we come upon "The University of Virginia," written by a friendly and admiring alumnus, B. B. Minor. Here shall be slipped in something which has been held in reserve. Mr. White must have had some trusted editorial help right at hand. The notices of new works—especially in May—and other indications prove this; and it would be very gratifying