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 Rh sung at Plymouth on the anniversary of the landing of the Pilgrims, December 22d, 1620.

The June number must have been prepared in May and partly after Mr. Poe's marriage, and he contributes to it only the critical notices, of fifteen pages, and a short editorial about the "Right of Instruction;" which Judge Hopkinson, of Philadelphia, strongly opposes, in opening the number. There is a poetical tribute to G. D. Perdicaris, the learned and patriotic Greek; Eliza of Maine holds on and we have the usual variety of prose and poetry, including another lecture, on "The Obstacles and Hindrances to Education," by the veteran James M. Garnett.

The Critiques begin with "A Pleasant Peregrination through the Prettiest Parts of Pennsylvania, Performed by Peregrine Prolix, Philadelphia;" etc., of which is written: "It is very certain that Peregrine Prolix is a misnomer, that his book is an excellent thing and that the Preface is not the worst part of it." Its title is a pleasant alliteration. It receives over five pages. The editor does not altogether approve of "Notices of the War of 1812," by John Armstrong, once Secretary of War. But how he lets himself out over "The Letters, Conversations and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge;" and pleads for an American publication of the "Biographia Literaria." He is kind to the Rev. Calvin Colton's