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 Rh style, a good part, if not the whole, of Lucan's "Pharsalia," as is mentioned during Mr. Minor's editorship. Mr. Burke became a physician.

In publishing Poe's review of Headly and Channing, Mr. Thompson says: "From advance sheets of 'The Literati,' a work in press by the late Edgar A. Poe, we take the following sketches, as good specimens of that tomahawk-style of which the author was so great a master. In the present instances, the satire is well deserved."

The corner-stone of the Washington Monument is laid and the Messenger records all the proceedings. President-elect Zachary Taylor and his son Richard and here and a number of other distingués.

Miss Margaret Junkin wields her pen, which made her so widely known as Mrs. Preston. Philip Pendleton Cooke dies and fitting tributes are paid him; one by Dr. R. W. Griswold.

It is very probable that the editor opens Volume XVII. with sonnets, on "The Four Greatest Blessings of Life: Old Wine to Drink; Old Wood to Burn; Old Books to Read and Old Friends to Love." The signature this time is (Greek) Kappa Sigma. Claiming the credit of having brought Jenny Lind to Richmond, he addresses to her a "Song of Rejoicing."