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176 able men, on the "Evidences of Christianity," have been volumed and are reviewed. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" is reviewed and Lord Morpeth rebuked. Prof. Henry A. Washington delivers before the Virginia Historical Society an address on the first constitution of Virginia, 1776. There are honors paid to Henry Clay, and the editor has sonnets on the death of Mr. Webster. He well sustains his department. Sketches of the Flush Times in Alabama are introduced and take like Longstreet's "Georgia Scenes."

There is a common impression that the price of subscription to the Messenger was reduced from $5.00 to $3.00, when the form of publication was changed. This is a mistake. Up to the end of Volume XVIII. (1852), Mr. Thompson was both editor and proprietor. But by January, 1853, he had made an arrangement with his publishers, by which they became the proprietors and he their editor. It was then that the subscription was reduced to $3.00; but there was not the least change in the form or character of the work. It was thought that the reduction might, by a large accession of new subscribers, strengthen it financially. Mr. Thompson went on editing it in his usual style and Volume XIX. is very similar, in every respect, to its predecessors.

In his first Editor's Table, he makes a strong showing in behalf of the Messenger. These tables