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 Rh able "Memoir on Slavery," corrected; the Messenger makes friends with the New York Mirror and boosts both Willis and Morris; and these and other matters compose an interesting volume of 800 pages. The editor's Book Table is rather neglected, though in the May number a review department is announced and authors and publishers invited to send their works.

The beginning of this year was a trying time for Mr. White. He had had to endure the slow and painful death of his invalid wife, which occurred on the 11th of December, 1837, in her 43rd year. In the October number is an obituary notice of her and a hearty tribute to her by the faithful Eliza, of Maine. In the April number is a spirited defence of Mr. Jefferson, against a scandalous attack upon him, by The New York Church Quarterly. In six numbers is a "Journal of a Trip to the Mountains, Caves and Springs of Virginia," by a New Englander. But a stop must be made, else the next volume will never be reached and this intended sketch become as voluminous as Rollin's "Ancient History;" or an improved Encyclopædia.