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 90 the beard of sailors and soldiers was to be curtailed. "Ancient and Modern Eloquence" is an excellent essay by Mr. Anon.

The Messenger has captured the Navy and the Army and was so overwhelmed with communications stirred up by ["Harry Bluff"—was a pen name used by Lieut. Matthew Fontaine Maury, USN], that it had to reject many of them. But one, by Commander L. M. Powell, in favor of a Naval School is admitted. Then we have a full review of the report of Judge Upshur, as Secretary of the Navy. There are 26 chapters of "Scenes and Adventures in the Army," by a captain of U. S. Dragoons, St. George Cooke, father-in-law of General J. E. B. Stuart. There are also three long instalments of "Extracts from the Journal of An American Naval Officer." But the feather belongs to the cap of [Harry Bluff MFM] for his grand dissertation on "The Right of Search," which took Lord Aberdeen by surprise and turned in our favor the tide of diplomacy. In the same connection may be mentioned the review of Henry Wheaton's work on "The Right of Search and Visitation," claimed by England.

There is a discussion, pro and con, of "The Protective Policy," not as a question of party, but one of political economy. But the editor, seeing the danger, stopped the controversy. "Grecian and Roman Poetic Literature" is treated ably and at considerable length, by B., and