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 Rh made in the Messenger, by Geo. E. Dabney and others.

Mrs. Virginia Maury (Otey) Minor, of Richmond, offers "A Bouquet of Memories, or Spring Scenes on Land and Water," in prose and verse, descriptive of the pleasures of her visit to the home of Dr. Austin Brockenbrough (the uncle-in-law of her husband), in Tappahannock, Va.

Mr. Thompson defends the Messenger against an assault of Putnam's Magazine, in New York. He is a warm friend of Sculptor Gait, who is in Richmond, and wishes him to be employed to execute a statue of Mr. Jefferson, for his University, and he rejoices when the Legislature appropriates ten thousand dollars for that purpose.

The London Critic is very savage towards Edgar A. Poe. Whilst Mr. Thompson deprecates it, he issues it. M. LL. W. H. has loomed up in prose and verse; the approved Tenella hails from Raleigh; B. L. G., Miss Talley, Henry Ellen, Hayne, T. V. Moore, Julia Pleasants, Kilgour, Dr. Bendan, A. B. Seals, Everest, Eames, J. A. Turner, Mrs. Sigourney, E. L. Hines and others supply poetry. To correct various misprints of "Annabel Lee," Mr. Thompson reprints it from the MS. which Mr. Poe gave him five days before his death.

Some one at the University reviews Marion Harland's "Alone." The editor lets volume XX.