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 Rh fun is poked. Indeed, there are editorial remarks upon all the letters.

To the March number Mr. Poe contributes, besides critical notices, a tale, "Epimanes," followed by a short poem "To Helen." The prose articles are long and strong: the study of the Classics is ably defended; President Thomas R. Dew expounds, for the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, "The Influence of the Federative Republican System of Government upon Literature and the Development of Character;" and the Rev. E. F. Stanton discusses the importance of "Manual Labor Schools, as Connected with Literary Institutions." There are also the Inaugural of Judge Henry St. George Tucker as president of the aforesaid Society, and Mr. Maxwell's speech in honor of Judge Marshall, their late president Mr. J. F. Otis lets out his mind on the poetry of Robert Burns, as do others on a variety of topics; and the Tripoli and Lionel Granby serials are continued.

The critical notices commend Dr. F. L. Hawks' "Ecclesiastical History of Virginia;" Mrs. L. Miles' work on Phrenology; Judge Longstreet's celebrated "Georgia Scenes" and "Traits of the Famous Boston Tea Party;" of the actors in which there were then ten survivors. But with a short sword the critic dispatches "Mahmoud," probably a reprint, by the Harpers, from a