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 178 fires off an epigram, which was stolen by the New York Day-Book: Dr. Geo. F. Holmes reviews "The Key to the Cabin" and Mrs. Ex-President Tyler addresses a telling epistle to the Duchess of Sutherland and the other ladies of England, of her stripe.

Mr. Thompson refers to the useful services of Historian Campbell in behalf of a public library in Petersburg, and Thos. S. Gholson's address at its opening. Mr. C. and Mr. B. B. Minor started for Petersburg, in the winter of 1840-1, a Library and Reading Room, in the new Exchange Building, in which Mr. Minor had his first law office. L.I.L.; S.L.C.; T. V. Moore, etc., are good contributors. There are poems from the pens of Francis S. Key, Mrs. Dr. Hicks, C.Q.M. Jordan, Mary J. Windle, Virginia L. Smith (Mrs. French), Musœus, Tenella, T. H. Chivers, Caroline Howard and Thackeray. Oh! that two years' voyage to China! Let's have all three Isthmian canals—Panama, Nicaragua, Tehuantepec—and Eads' ship railway, too, to shorten the route to the Celestial Empire. Simms has been long missing: he has taken