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 Rh several quotations are printed in Greek. The Greek Dramatists are also reviewed by Charles Minnigerode, when he was a professor of Humanities in William and Mary. He became distinguished as an Episcopal minister and was, during the war of the Southern Confederacy, rector of St. Paul's Church, Richmond, which was attended by President Davis and Gen. R. E. Lee; and he visited Mr. Davis in his prison at Fortress Monroe.

No other magazine in this country could have dared to present such articles as the Messenger did.

The reviewer of Navarrete had spoken of Irving's unacknowledged indebtedness to that author, in his "Life of Columbus;" for which the Knickerbocker called the reviewer to account. He replies and maintains his point.

There are some interesting papers on "Blindness and the Blind," from the State Institute for the Blind, at Staunton.

Elm, the Rev. E. L. Magoon, writes well about "The Patriotism of St. Paul" and "Christianity and Patriotism." He was pastor of the Second Baptist Church, in Richmond, and, wishing to improve his pulpit deliverances, had the independence and good sense to take lessons in elocution from Forrest, the actor. But the goody-goodies censured him. He was called to