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170 Aglaus turns out to be Henry H. Timrod: so that he, Hayne, Legaré, Hon. B. F. Porter, Simms, and Azim, also of South Carolina, were all sustaining Thompson at the same time. The Messenger contains the whole of the drama "Norman Maurice, or the Man of the People." Mulchinock, Barhydt, a lady of Richmond and others send poetry. The city of Richmond has turned the Academy into the Athenæum for public lectures, etc., and Judge John Robertson delivers the opening address. Thackeray delivered there his lectures on the Georges. P. D. Bernard issues a new edition of "Riego" and J. B. Dabney, alluding to the unnecessary incog, of the author, reviews it very favorably. It was a proof-sheet of this edition which Judge Robertson lost, but luckily it fell into the hands of his particular friend, Mr. B. B. Minor, who was requested to keep mum, and he did.

Dr. Jno. P. Little writes the "History of Richmond." Lieut. Maury has another of his great papers, on "The Commercial Prospects of the South." Mr. Thompson truly says of this very great man: "The views of Lieut. Maury are marked in a high degree with the originality and lucidus ordo which characterize everything that comes from his pen. His style, too, is singularly pure and fresh and at times becomes really poetical, showing that had he not been one of the