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 188 another work, entitled "Mimic Life." "The University of Virginia; its Character and Wants" are again frankly considered. Duychink's "Cyclopædia of American Literature" furnishes a sketch and portrait of Simms, and a picture of Woodlands.

Mr. Thompson is very enthusiastic over the eloquence of Edward Everett; first, in his oration, in Richmond, March 19, 1856, on "Washington," for the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association; and afterwards, at the inauguration of the Dudley Astronomical Observatory, at Albany. But Mr. Thompson does not notice another exhibition, in Richmond, of the eloquence and liberality of the eminent New Englander. By request he delivered, for some good local object, his finished lecture on "Charity." Mrs. B. B. Minor was a founder and vice-president of the Mt. Vernon Association. She gave the orator a lunch and cleared his throat for his eloquence with some of her noted ambrosia, which he highly commended.

There is a tribute, with a portrait, to Dr. Francis Lieber, and Jos. G. Baldwin treats, in his own style, of the genius and character of Alexander Hamilton. The great writer and logician, Dr. Albert Taylor Bledsoe, is brought forward with his "Liberty and Slavery." When he was professor of Mathematics in