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 76 MSS."; "The History of an Adventurer," with its sequel; "The Motherless Daughters," by a Virginian, ascribed to Prof. Geo. E. Dabney, of Washington College, a ripe scholar and a fine writer, who was afterwards brought to Richmond College. The story, "The German's Daughter," attracted a good deal of attention. Its author was "a talented young lady, a native of Amelia county, Va." Her initials, T. H. E., have been met with before. Judge Upshur penned, as hardly any one else could have done, the sketch of Mr. Jefferson, in review of Prof. Geo. Tucker's "Life of the Sage of Monticello." "The Abbot, or Hermit of the Falls," W. C. P.(reston?), S. C., was highly commended. Mr. Heath and Lucian Minor reappear. Mr. Minor is greatly honored. He has removed to Charlottesville to experiment with his hobby, an utterly independent, impartial and no-sided newspaper. But there is a surmise that he may have been so partial as to have addressed a poem, on page 678, "To Mrs. S.P.Q., on her marriage. M., Louisa Co." He did write poetry and translate Greek odes. Eliza, of Maine, contributes some prose; but has become bolder in her poetic flights. So has Egeria, of Clark's Mills, Ohio, who has a poem, in three parts.

Harry Bluff (Lieut. M. F. Maury, still incog.) makes three draws of remarkable "Scraps from the