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 Rh and able defence of Dr. Charming against an attack upon him by Lord Brougham, in the Edinburgh Review. Then prose and poetry, of great variety, mostly original, but some selected and some translated, alternate, until 128 pages are well filled, in the new and beautiful dress that had been provided.

Among the new contributors are Edward Parmele, H. T. Tuckerman, between whom and Mrs. Seba Smith is a discussion in regard to Shelley; Edmund Bohun, Conway Robinson, M. Morgan, M.D., U.S.N.; Thos. Nelson, Elihu Burritt, F. M. Hubbard, S. Teackle Wallis, Lewis J. Cist, Dr. J. E. Snodgrass, Rufus W. Griswold, Prof. W. H. Fonerden, Georgia; Chas. Lanman, Lydia Jane Pierson; Jas. T. Fields, who was then a clerk in a Boston bookstore, but became one of the best-posted of littérateurs and the intimate friend of Charles Dickens; E. Browne, Kentucky; A. M. F. Buchanan, Mrs. E. J. Eames, W. G. Howard, Ohio; J. W. Mathews, Cornelia L. Tuthill, who wrote "Virgina Dare, or the Colony of Roanoke;" Ro. How. Gould, Geo. D. Strong, Dewitt E. Roberts, Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt, Payne Kenyon Kilbourn, G. Waterston, Geo. B. Wallis, Ohio; L. L. Noble, A. F. Olmstead, etc.

Some of the longest and most important articles are anonymous; e.g., "White and Black Slavery," R. T. H.; "My Uncle's Unpublished