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 Rh a "blistering hand,"—to say nothing of innumerable other blisters interspersed throughout the work. "But we have done with Norman Leslie: if ever we saw such a silly thing, may we be—blistered."

Besides his reviews of books, Mr. Poe thought proper to take full notice seriatim of the Edinburg; the Westminster; the London Quarterly; the North American, etc., and he adhered to this. He gives a very favorable critique of the "Address on Education, delivered by Lucian Minor, before the Institute of Education of Hampden-Sidney College;" which was published in pamphlet form, although it appeared in the present number of the Messenger.

Among the reviews are those of several Southern works, viz.: "The Heroine-Cherubina," by Eaton Stanard Barrett; a new edition published in Richmond, by P. D. Bernard, Mr. White's son-in-law; the second volume of Conway Robinson's "Practice in the Courts in Virginia," also published in Richmond; Maxwell's "Life of the Rev. Dr. John H. Rice;" Walker Anderson's "Oration on the Rev. Dr. Joseph Caldwell, late President of the University of North Carolina;" Rev. D. L. Carroll's "Inaugural Address, as President of Hampden-Sidney College," published in Richmond, by Mr. White. There are also tributes to