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 Rh Lucky Bag." No. III., "Details of the School Ship," had, no doubt, much to do with the founding of the U. S. Naval School at Annapolis. Maury preferred going to West Point, because of the advantages for study there. But when circumstances placed him in the Navy, he strove to improve himself and it in every way that he could, and he succeeded so admirably that many friends of the Army had their jealousy excited; and probably President Jefferson Davis unduly sympathized with them. Judge A. B. Longstreet, author of the famous "Georgia Scenes," has become president of Emory College, Georgia, and delivered a fine inaugural. Rev. Mr. Chapin, who is said to have assisted Mr. White editorially, has delivered a Fourth of July Oration before the Military of Richmond and has issued in Boston a volume, containing six of his lectures on the "Duties of Young Men," which is very favorably noticed and extracts taken.

The new publications of the day receive better attention and there is a notice of an address delivered by James L. Minor, Secretary of State, on the laying of the cornerstone of the University of the State of Missouri, at Columbia, He went from Fredericksburg, Va., as a young teacher and lawyer, to Missouri, about 1830. He gave up the law, but gained and held influential positions there. It was partly through his