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 72 was also from Richmond and both poems appear, in the December number, side by side.

Rev. Dr. Henry Ruffner, after occupying four numbers with "Notes of a Tour from Virginia to Tennessee," takes everybody by surprise with his admirable story, "Judith Bensaddi," and before the interest in that had subsided brought forth its worthy sequel, "Seclusaval."

Among the addresses are those of John Tyler, Geo. E. Dabney, Z. Collins Lee and E. H. Chapin. Besides Judge Tucker, William and Mary is represented by her Professors, Saunders and Millington. There are good essays, tales, reviews and notices of living American poets, and a wish is felt to know their authors,— especially of those of the Bridgewater Treatises and "The Character of Medea," from Chapel Hill. Notice is again taken of the "Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence" and of "New Views of the Solar System." There are versions in five languages of Morris' "Woodman, Spare that Tree," under the title of "Delphian Amusements." N. C. Brooks writes those in Latin and Greek; Rev. H. Scheib, the one in German; Prof. I. A. Pizarro, that in Spanish. The one in Greek is also printed in English type. In his early contributions, Mr. Poe quoted some Greek, which was put in English type; but it was not long before Mr. White procured a font of Greek type and the Messenger