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 182 slip off, as he had done to Europe. During the Confederacy war, he revisited London and Paris and abode some time in each.

The Messenger is about to attain its majority and is the oldest monthly of its kind in the United States, except The Knickerbocker, which is only six months its senior. The editor renders hearty thanks to patrons, contributors and the press and says: "Yet, we deem it proper to tell the Southern people that for years past the Messenger has met with only the most meagre patronage and now stands in need of enlarged means, or it must share the fate of other similar works which have preceded it and perished. * * * We shall omit no exertion to maintain its good repute to the last;" and thus he enters upon the twenty-first year and furnishes five pages of literary notices.

Jos. G. Baldwin has published his celebrated "Party Leaders" and is reviewed; W. S. Grayson has become quite a writer on Mental Philosophy; Arago's "Memoirs of my Youth" is translated and Augusta Greenwood writes "Shade and Sunshine," in nine chapters. There is a discussion about the English language, based upon Rev. R. W. Bailey's Manual of that great tongue, and Dr. S. H. Dickson delivers an address before the New England Society, which had been published, but not copyrighted. Mr. Thompson,