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Rh, and visited Mr. Alexander A. Smets' remarkable library, with its great rarities. He also met Gen. Henry R. Jackson, one of the poets of Georgia. J. A. Turner reviews Jackson's poems.

"The Seldens of Sherwood" is concluded in fifty-four chapters; but who the author, F——, was is unknown. Hugh R. Pleasants sketches the Virginia Constitutional Convention, of 1829-'30. Oliver P. Baldwin starts the Weekly Magnolia. He was so quiet and retiring a gentleman, that his abilities as a writer and speaker were for some time unknown. They became widely acknowledged, but not because of his fading Magnolia. He for some time edited the Dispatch and came to deliver eloquent public lectures and addresses.

Who furnished Notes and Comments on that long trip to China? A Southron writes "Michael Bonham, or The Fall of Bexar," a tale of Texas, in five parts. Moncure D. Conway comes in. Hon. John Y. Mason writes about a line of French steamers from Norfolk. He was both a State and a Federal Judge; our Minister to France and Secretary of the U. S. Navy. L. M. translates for his father, aged 77, Cicero's Cato, the elder, a treatise De Senectute. This must have been the filial Lucian Minor. The sermons preached at the University of Virginia by