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166 eight nine-line stanzas. One E. C., of Virginia, dares eighteen sonnets, with explanations "betwixt and between." H. T. Tuckerman still keeps up his sketches of celebrities. Some one reviews Longfellow and his "Evangeline" rather tartly; and it was said that he discontinued his gratuitous copy of the Messenger. Yet, he afterwards wrote to Thompson about Poe.

Lieut. Maury presents, in person as well as in print, the National Observatory to the Virginia Historical Society. He also discusses "The Isthmus Line to the Pacific." Virginia's orator, Ex-Governor James McDowell, makes in Congress such a great speech that S. L. C. reviews and lauds it. Ik expands in "The Reveries of a Bachelor" and other things.

Mr. Thompson, under the signature of (Greek) Sigma, contributes poetry, viz.: "Stanzas on the Proposed Sale of the Natural Bridge;" and some to Amelie Louise Rives, on her departure for Paris.

Mr. Poe and Thompson have become acquainted and Mr. Poe, when in Richmond, frequents the editorial sanctum. He is now quite a regular contributor and furnishes five papers of Marginalia and a review of the poems of Frances Sargent Osgood. A number of new poets appear and several old ones. But death claims three favorite supporters,—Mary G. Wells, Mary E.