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 78 that an ex-editor of the Messenger was called, in 1860, to the presidency of that university.

The whole civilized world has recently been deeply interested in the obsequies of England's great and lamented Queen. The Messenger has some poems addressed to her in the early years of her reign: one in January of this volume, on her Coronation, by Miss Charlotte M. S. Barnes, of New York.

This volume is a splendid one and after all that has been said, how much has had to be omitted. The New York Express, among many complimentary things, said of the Messenger: "Not on the South alone, however, but on the whole country it is shedding its genial influence. Like Washington and Jefferson and Marshall, the Messenger is the honored child of Virginia, but like them, too, its wide-spreading influence and high reputation have become the common property of the whole land."

The Messenger has made up with the Knickerbocker and favors it and the Gentleman's Magazine. It says: "We are pleased to find that our old assistant, Edgar A. Poe, is connected with Burton in the editorial management of the Gentleman's Magazine. Mr. Poe is favorably known to the readers of the Messenger as a gentleman of fine endowments; possessing a taste classical