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 28 doubt, however, if anything in the name of style can be cited which contains more terrific beauty than his tale."

This number contains the promised address of Prof. Geo. Tucker, before the Historical and Philosophical Society, as the alternate of the Hon. James McDowell; "Indian Lover," by D. D. Mitchell, U. S. A.; "The Last Indian," a poem by Larry Lyle; another of Minor's Letters from New England, and a number of essays, sketches, tales and poems. There is an answer and counterpart, by Mrs. Dr. Buckley, of Baltimore, to Mr. Wilde's "My Life is Like the Summer Rose." The critical notices have some internal evidence that Mr. Poe may have had a hand in them.

No. 9, for May, begins with an important notice by the publisher, who states that he has made an arrangement with a gentleman of approved literary taste and attainments, to whose special management the editorial department has been confided;" and who would devote his exclusive attention to the work. He pays a high tribute to Mr. Heath (but without naming him), and thanks him most gratefully for the able and disinterested assistance which he had so long rendered. Then he and his new editor fill up his pages with the usual variety. Prof. Thomas R. Dew, president of renowned William and Mary, from whose pen a contribution has been