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 Rh at first, intended only to make extracts from it, but concluded to take the whole, with an apology to the author. Dr. Dickson is the elegant gentleman who is so highly spoken of during Mr. Minor's editorship and who was so near becoming a professor in the Richmond Medical College.

Passing by a number of good things, we come to an editorial note of a lecture on "The Geology of Words," delivered before the Athenæum by the Rev. Thos. V. Moore, a distinguished Presbyterian divine of Richmond, who removed to Nashville, Tenn. And still further on, the editor resumes his "Notes on European Travel" and takes us to Wiesbaden, Frankfort, Baden Baden, Strasburg, etc. He promises to gratify numerous correspondents, by continuing these notes, which have been so long deferred by the temporary loss of all his papers on his return voyage. He has yet to go through Northern Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. He sometimes breaks out into rhyme.

"A Kingdom Mortgaged" is a sequel to the serial of Gaston Phoebus. Under the title "The Daughters of Washington" is an account of the formation, in Richmond, of the association of ladies for the purchase of Mt. Vernon. Isaac McLellan, of New York, aids them with a poetic appeal.

A review of the poems of Owen Meredith, who