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 48 "Change to Episcopacy" and to Lieut. M. F. Maury's "Work on Navigation." But he retaliates with vigor upon Col. Stone, by averring that his "Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman" is "an imposition upon the Public," which he proceeds to demonstrate; and thus winds up: "The term flat is the only general expression which would apply to it. It is written, we believe, by Col. Stone, of the New York Commercial Advertiser, and should have been printed among the quack advertisements, in a spare corner of his paper." Clark had ascribed quackery to Poe, and Stone had approved it: Messenger for April, p. 327.

Mr. Poe is more friendly to "Watkins Tottle and other Sketches, by Boz," than was a former editor to the same author, who was still unknown. With a few good words for "Flora and Thalia, or Gems of Flowers and Poetry," this number closes with a rebuke to Mr. Whittaker, of the Southern Literary Journal, of Charleston, S. C., because he, instead of recognizing the Messenger as a coadjutor in the same cause, seemed "disposed to unite with the Knickerbocker and New York Mirror, in covert, and therefore unmanly, thrusts at the Messenger."

Now the July number brings us "Letters from Randolph;" "Example and Precept," by Paulding; "Erostratus;" "Miseries of Bashfulness;"